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 …
Speciality steel-maker Bharat Forge on Thursday announced its decision to set up a one-million-tonne integrated steel unit in West Bengal. It is also in talks with the State Government for setting up a manufacturing hub here on the lines of the one proposed in Maharashtra. The steel unit, which would …
Apart from Madhya Pradesh, investors from nine other states have shown keen interest in making investments in the state at the Jabalpur Investors Meet held recently. Thirty-six investors from nine other states have signed 41 Memoranda of Understanding to the tune of Rs 46337 crore. In all, 61 MoUs worth …
The Orissa Pollution Control Board (OPCB) on Monday issued a closure notice to Bhushan Power and Steel (BPSL) for not making arrangements for the suitable disposal of solid waste. BPSL has been asked to stop all production till further orders, failing which stringent penal proceedings would be initiated against the …
Merchant miners have got almost double the number of iron ore mines than steel makers between 2001 and 2007, which the metal manufacturers think is not in the national interest. Out of 260 iron ore mines, for which the ministry has approved mineral concessions during the period, 172 went to …
some people in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district, in a complete turnaround from their earlier stand, agreed to give up land for the posco steel plant on January 5, but with conditions. They have asked for a 5 per cent share in the profits of the company, among other demands. In another …
protest is building up against Kundil Sponge Iron Ltd's unit in Londa town in Belgaum district, Karnataka. People are planning to take to the streets to protest against the rising pollution in the township, which has started affecting rice cultivation in neighbouring villages. They say although officials promised action against …
January 2, 2006. At least 13 tribal people and a policeman were killed in a clash at the Kalinganagar steel complex in Orissa's Jajpur district. The tribal people were protesting the construction of a boundary wall for a proposed mega steel plant by Tata Steel when the violence broke out …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board has directed Jain Udyog Pvt Ltd, a sponge iron plant operating at Sanvordem in south Goa, to shift its unit after taking appropriate consent from the board. The board took the decision on December 11, 2007, in view of the environmental guidelines given by …
Energy efficiency improvement is a basic, yet significant, way of addressing both energy security and environment concerns. There are various measures of industrial energy efficiency performance, with different purposes and applications. This paper explores different measures of energy efficiency performance: absolute energy consumption, energy intensity, diffusion of specific energy-saving technology …
on november 28, the High Court of Bombay at Goa ordered a sponge iron plant in south Goa to stop operations within a week. This is not the first time the company has been asked to shut shop. The Goa State Pollution Control Board (gspcb) on October 6, 2006, had …
the three villages in Orissa that face displacement due to posco's plans to set up a steel plant and a captive port, were cordoned off by the police recently. The situation took a violent turn when "pro- posco' groups attacked "anti- posco ' groups on November 29. The anti- posco …
This is the fifth sustainability report issued by POSCO. The report demonstrates the responsibility to the stakeholders and reflects the activities towards sustainable development. This report covers the operations related to sustainability management at Pohang Works, Gwangyang Works, Pohang Head Office and Seoul Office. Related data from the major subsidiaries …
in an unusual incident, Monnet Ispat and Energy Ltd's public hearing in Raigarh was called off because "the company was unable to adequately answer issues raised by the public'. The company's plans to expand its iron and steel plant in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, has further run into trouble with allegations of …
madhya Pradesh's pollution authority has cracked the whip on 30 steel re-rolling mills in Sanwer industrial area. The mills have been incriminated under the Air (Pollution Control and Prevention) Act 1981. Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board's (mppcb) tests revealed that suspended particles in Sanwer were 650 per microgram per cubic …
in a country seeking rapid industrialisation at all costs, suspension of an industrial project on environmental grounds is a rarity. But that's precisely what happened to a project of Monnet Ispat and Energy Limited in Chattisgarh. What is even rarer, in this case, is that the much abused environmental clearance …
Estimates show that India will produce 180 million tonnes (mt) of steel by 2020. Consumption of stainless steel has risen 14 per cent in the last 15 years in the country
Slag is a by-product of steel. It contains about 30-35 per cent calcium oxide, 35-38 per cent silica, 10-18 per cent aluminium oxide and 7-10 per cent magnesium oxide. Slag, generated from manufacture of pig iron, is granulated and called blast furnace slag. It is non-biodegradable. One tonne of slag …
kujang, Jagatsinghpur district, Orissa, April 15, 2007: a contingent of armed policemen at B B High School testifies to mounting tension. The school is the site for a public hearing organised by the Orissa Pollution Control Board. The environmental ramifications of the contentious Posco steel project is up for discussion. …
