Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Tribune News Service Dharamsala, February 1 Chief Minister PK Dhumal announced that Rs 500 crore aluminium project would be set up in the industrial area of Kangra district in the near future. It would boost the industrial activities in the area and generate employment avenues for the educated and skilled …
The total and the migration concentration of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) in 20 soil samples taken from the surrounding area of Aluminium Factory Podgorica, airports, asphalt plant and highroad in Zeta Valley (Montenegro) were determined.
Visakhapatnam, Oct. 22: Though Anrak Aluminium Ltd issued a public notice on Tuesday stating that the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had accorded environmental clearance (EC) to their alumina refinery, smel-ter plant and captive power plant proposed at Makavarapalem, the clearance letter was not found on the website of …
Bishnu Dash With a view to augment the availability of bauxite for the aluminium plants coming up in the state, the Orissa government plans to start exploration of bauxite in the Keonjhar and Koraput districts during the current fiscal. It will take up exploration in the surrounding areas of Dholkata …
Since 2005, the European Union has created an emissions trading scheme (ETS)that caps GHG emissions of power generation, but also of industrial activities whose products, in some cases, are traded internationally. The primary aluminium sector in Europe, whose direct emissions are not capped, stands to lose profit margins and, possibly, …
UNLOCKING VALUE: Anil Agarwal (left), Chairman, with Kuldip Kumar Kaura, Managing Director and CEO, Vedanta Resources, addressing a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday. MUMBAI: Vedanta Resources on Tuesday announced a restructuring exercise to simplify its corporate structure and eliminate cross holdings among group businesses. It will organise the group …
Maulik Pathak & Harit Mehta / Ahmedabad August 27, 2008, 0:37 IST The Adani Group has tied up with Ashapura Minechem, a multi-mineral solutions provider, to set up a Rs 10,000-crore aluminium refinery at Mundra in Gujarat. Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani said the company was negotiating a 50:50 joint …
The Climate Pollution Reduction Scheme uses a cap and trade (or emissions trading)scheme as the cornerstone to achieve emissions reductions in Australia. This has significant benefits because it equalises abatement costs across the economy and thereby allows the market to find the lowest cost abatement opportunities. In this sense, emissions …
Govindraj Ethiraj / Mumbai July 22, 2008, 0:34 IST Last week, I caught up with the head of a large steel company. "We are losing a few hundred crores every month because of the government's anti-inflationary move to hold steel prices," he told me. I asked him how demand was …
THE lush green hill tracts of the Eastern Ghats may soon be blighted by smoke belched out by two bauxite units, each worth Rs 4,000 crore. While one refinery unit with a capacity of 1.4 million tonnes per annum is being set up by JSW Alumina Limited at Boddavara village …
A Chinese cargo ship carrying over 5000 metric tonnes (MT) of project cargo has been stranded 30 nautical miles off the Bengal coast since June 13. The Kolkata Port Trust has not been able to provide pilots to guide it into the Haldia port due to inclement weather. The consignment …
Vedanta Resources, the UK-listed mining group, is planning to invest $20bn in India in the next four years to expand its metals, mining and electricity generation operations in the country. The move by Vedanta, which controls Sterlite Industries, India's biggest producer of non-ferrous metals such as aluminium, copper and zinc, …
National Aluminium Company (Nalco) is exploring the possibility of setting up a greenfield aluminium smelter and captive power plant near Jharsuguda, western Orissa at an investment of more than Rs 14,000 crore. The capacity of the proposed smelter is pegged at 5 lakh tonnes per annum with a captive generation …
London-based Vedanta Resources's chairman Anil Agarwal may be claiming that his projects in Orissa are well on schedule, but the ground reality is somewhat different. The group's Rs 8,400 crore aluminium project in Orissa is in serious trouble. With locals snapping the water supplyline to the project, work on the …
Tribal residents of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh, are preparing to protest a proposed smelting project that will affect five villages in the district. Despite a formal resolution against mining and smelting projects by the people, the Union environment ministry cleared two such projects in October and December 2007, and …
manoranjan Das bsc, llb, mca thought his degrees would get him a job at the Vedanta Alumina refinery in Orissa's Lanjigarh block. He had more reasons; one acre of his family land is now part of the refinery's ash pond. "I sent my resume several times but they didn't reply,' …
