Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Bhavesh Arun Karekar & Others Vs MoEF&CC & Others dated 15/04/2024. The matter related to non-compliance of the terms and conditions of Consent to Operate and Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to M/s. Ashapur Meinchem Ltd., village …
Mumbai: Unmindful of the ecological havoc being wreaked across the state, Maharashtra government has put its greenery-wrecking toxic mines on the tourist map. The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) has selected a bauxite mine in Amboli, along with a waterfall and the coastline, as a tourist hotspot and is promoting …
A seed was the image of the future, a stored heritage... It could ` not be handed over to the MNC... to hand over such knowledge was to hand over a way of life THE MINISTER of environment and forestry, Jairam Ramesh, is an interesting man to quarrel about and …
New Delhi: In yet another blow to Vedanta, whose mining project in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa has already been blocked by the environment ministry, the company’s plan to expand its adjoining alumina refinery in Lanjigarh has been adjudged by the same ministry to be in violation of existing laws. …
Mumbai: Union minister of environment and forests Jairam Ramesh has asked Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan to review the 49 mining leases given for excavation of iron ore and bauxite in Sindhudurg region. The move follows a TOI expose on the state government
The issue of industry versus environment will once again heat up on Monday with the Meena Gupta committee submitting its report on Posco's steel plant in Orissa and the Supreme Court taking up the plea of Sterlite Industries against the Madras high court judgement to shut its plant in Tamil …
After the Niyamgiri ban, a controversy is brewing in Chhattisgarh over bauxite mining by Vedanta Resources, the UK-based mining conglomerate, in the Maikal hill ranges in Kawardha district with the opposition Congress demanding a probe into alleged large-scale infringement of green and tribal areas and violation of panchayat laws.
Vedanta Aluminium, which is facing a notice from the environment ministry about the legitimacy of its raw material sources, said it plans to obtain bauxite from a government-run mining company in western Gujarat. The unit of India
LONDON stock market-listed Vedanta Resources has won the bauxite mining bid of Gujarat governmentowned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC). The Anil Agrawal-owned company will get 5 lakh tonnes of bauxite from the GMDC-owned mines. With ample supply from the Gujarat mines, Vedanta can run its Orissa-based refinery with the fullest …
Bhubaneswar: Having personally given its viewpoint before a green panel on Thursday, Vedanta Resources will now have to wait till October 30 to know the fate of its aluminium refinery plant in Odisha which is under scanner for alleged violation of environment norms. It was not a public hearing but …
In a reiteration of its earlier stand, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) told the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) that it had not breached any regulatory norms at the site of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district. The company was today called for a personal hearing …
ON August 24, Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, uploaded on the Ministry's website the text of his detailed decision rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. The decision is a rare instance of how the …
THE August 24 decision of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) refusing to allow mining in the Niyamgiri hills jointly by the Orissa Mining Corporation and Sterlite Industries (India) Limited, a Vedanta Group company, has given a boost to the movements against displacement of people and illegal mining …
Makkavaripalem (Visakhapatnam), Sept. 21: Farmers of Makkavaripalem mandal fear that the suspension of bauxite mining rights to MNCs would result in loss of livelihood. Many farmers of Rachapalli, Ramannapalem and surrounding hamlets have had their agricultural fields acquired for an alumina plant, though they complained about the compensation package. However, …
The big hurdles to India's growth and social peace are the rules that govern the acquisition of land, meant to enrich politicians rather than the people, argues Abheek Barman TWO days after the government scrapped a bauxite mining project in Orissa, Rahul Gandhi visited Niyamgiri, the ground zero of the …
Ranchi, Sept. 19: Existing and prospective industry and mining players of Jharkhand are apprehensive about the draft mining bill, which seeks to make them share 26 per cent of profits with locals. A group of ministers (GoM) approved the draft bill on September 17. Speaking to The Telegraph, Jindal Steel …
Even though Vedanta Resources has initiated the process of saving its plant from closure, the Orissa government is yet to take a decision on the revival of the Niyamgiri bauxite mines in Kalahandi district. Acting on the report of the Saxena Committee and the recommendation of the Forest Advisory Committee, …
Vedanta Resources received another jolt today, with the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) suspending the green approval to its $1.7-billion bauxite mining project in Orissa and asking the environment ministry to
The National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) today cancelled the environmental clearance given to Vedanta's bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa. The authority has now referred the matter to the Union environment ministry for final consideration. NEAA also cancelled the environment clearance given to Kotli-Behl 1B dam on the …
