Bhubaneswar: As uncertainty prevails over South Korean steel giant Posco's proposed plant near Paradip, the state government on Tuesday informed the assembly that around three lakh trees were felled during the process of land acquisition for the project. "According to sources available with Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (the state's …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh put the conditional clearance to Posco project on hold basing on an e-mail, the Orissa Government report to the Centre has claimed that the anti-Posco activist have forged and fabricated documents on palli sabha resolutions. "The …
A day after Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh put the forest clearance for the Rs 54,000- crore POSCO steel project on hold, the state government said it would closely examine the MoEF order before taking any further action. On Thursday, Ramesh had held back forest clearance, asking the …
Jagatsinghpur: The anti-Posco activists under the banner of Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS) on Thursday decided to congregate at a meeting at Patanahat on Friday in protest against the assurance report submitted by the Odisha government on Wednesday to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). In the protest meeting …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday said that it would soon renew the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Korean steel major Posco for its proposed steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district. The steel and mines department has already received the recommendation of the law department in this regard. …
BHUBANESWAR: It took an e-mail sent by the anti-Posco group to make Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh keep the project clearance issue in abeyance. Three days after the fresh complaint by PPSS (Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti) and a day after the State Government
Having been tossed between the State and the Centre for the past few months, the question of a forest clearance for Posco project is in the Orissa government's court once again. On Thursday, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh delayed a final decision on the clearance once again, telling the State …
South Korean steelmaker Posco will have to wait a while longer before it can embark on its . 54,000-crore integrated steel plant and port project in Odisha. The environment ministry has not accepted the assurance given by the state government that there were no other traditional forest dwellers or tribals …
This MoEF directive held back forest clearance to the POSCO project in Orissa. It has rejected state government’s assurance that there are no tribals in the area, where the 52,000 crore rupee steel-cum-captive power plant is to come up. On January 31st 2011, Shri Jairam Ramesh had issued a "speaking …
The Orissa government on Wednesday sent a letter to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) assuring that no tribals and other traditional forest dwellers (OTFDs) were living at the proposed Posco project site for at least 75 years. On the other hand, the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), …
SILENCING PROTEST? New Delhi: The Orissa government on Wednesday dismissed the resolutions of the villages claiming rights over the land it wants to give to the Posco Integrated Steel Plant. Ignoring the resolutions of the two villages, Dhinkia and Govindpur, the Orissa government has sent an
If you believe the financial press, one of the biggest environmental stories this past year has been the question of "go" and "no go" areas for coal mining. It looks like a typical clash between the "green lobby" represented by the Environment Ministry (supported by environmental NGOs) and the so-called …
BHUBANESWAR: The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), a forum working for elimination of discrimination based on caste, today claimed that dalits would be the most hit by the Posco Steel Project. A fact-finding team of NCDHR which visited proposed project site at Dhinkia and Govindpur gram panchayats and …
Bhubaneswar: Maintaining its earlier stand that there was no tribal inhabitant or traditional forest dwellers in the villages demarcated for Posco's mega steel plant near Paradip, the Odisha government on Sunday said that it was likely to submit its assurance report to the Centre next week. Chief secretary Bijay Kumar …
Orissa will send a letter to the Union Environment Ministry on Tuesday assuring that no Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (OTFD) or tribals were living at the Posco project site for at least 75 years. However, the MoEF nod may take some time with people having complained to Jairam Ramesh that …
The Odisha state government has said that it will submit its assurance that there are no tribals or traditional forest dwellers in Posco project area this week. Even as it is finalising the assurance report, villagers in the area, particularly the villages of Dhinkia and Gobindpur are in the process …
Under pressure to speed up the process for starting Posco's 12 million tonne steel project, Orissa government has decided to submit its assurance report to the Centre next week, reiterating its earlier that there was no tribal inhabitant or traditional forest dwellers in the villages demarcated for project near Paradip. …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has agreed with South Koran steel major Posco India to allow swap of certain quantities of iron ore for production of better quality steel in its proposed 12 MTPA steel project near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district. Announcing this in the State Assembly here on Wednesday, steel …
Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti organised a rally on Sunday to renew its opposition to the $12 billion project For Posco India, trouble for its proposed 12 million tonne steel project seems to be far from over. The South Korean steel major, which has been encountering strong opposition for five years …
BALITUTHA: Tension prevailed in the area selected for the proposed mega steel plant of Posco in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday as villagers opposing the project came out to vent their anger against the State government for trying to mislead the Union Ministry of Environment Forests about the implementation of …
