The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
NTECL Vallur, which is a joint venture of NTPC Ltd and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB), is located on Chennai’s outskirts in neighbouring Tiruvallur district. CHENNAI: In what could be a serious violation of environmental laws, the 1,500 MW NTPC Tamil Nadu Energy Company Limited (NTECL) Vallur thermal power plant …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala coastal zone management authority (KCZMA) is unlikely to recommend the controversial resort project undertaken by Kapico Kerala Resorts Pvt Ltd on Nediyathuruthu island in Vembanad Lake for CRZ and environmental clearance. KCZMA is learnt to have decided against recommending the project, citing serious violations involved in the construction. …
While the Uttarakhand government is keen to encourage tourists, it needs to figure out how many people the hills can withstand at once The Chardham yatra to Yamunotri, Gangotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath is considered one of the holiest pilgrimages for Hindus. However, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) …
Chennai coast will undergo a permanent change when proposed Kattupalli Port expansion plan begins to take shape. CHENNAI: Chennai coast will undergo a permanent change when proposed Kattupalli Port expansion plan begins to take shape. Imagine the combined size of 825 football fields, that is kind of sea reclamation envisaged …
Ministry says the PSU did not have green clearance for expansion. HYDERABAD: The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of Ministry of Environment and Forests(MoEF) has directed the Telangana State Pollution Control Board (TSPCB) to take action against Singareni Collieries in five cases for violating environmental norms. All five cases are pertaining …
The AAP has joined a citizens’ campaign to stop the tree felling. Party spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said the government will not give its nod for tree felling anymore. Large-scale felling of trees for the redevelopment of seven colonies in south Delhi was to include close to 16,500 trees, as per …
Details of trees to be cut and whether it involves endangered species has to be included in report. CHENNAI: Even as protests have erupted against the 277-km Chennai-Salem Greenfield Express Highway project, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has issued Terms of Reference (ToR) for a detailed …
NEW DELHI: While the need perhaps is for more trees to be planted in a city plagued by pollution, seven major housing projects are set to take a toll of Delhi’s tree population — the environment impact assessment of these South Delhi redevelopment projects shows 16,500 are set to be …
New Town: A crucial environment impact assessment has been commissioned for a road and a flyover that are to be built through the East Calcutta Wetlands, a 12,500-hectare span of water bodies regarded as the city's kidneys. The Thane-headquartered Ultra-Tech Environmental Consultancy & Laboratory has been given four months to …
CONTRARY to previous reports by environmentalists, the new Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the 2,100 megawatts - Rufiji Hydropower Project at Stigler’s Gorge has shown recoverable effects, confirming government’s forecasts to start construction work later next month. EIA report is a crucial stage towards implementing the decades-long unexecuted project …
The CRZ Notification, 2011, stipulates that all proposals have to be evaluated against the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP). CHENNAI: The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has recommended granting of Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and environment clearance for the phase-3 …
HYDERABAD: With time running out ahead of the 2019 general elections, the TDP government in AP has put capital construction projects on the fast track. In its June sitting, as well as the one in May, the state-level Environment Impact Assessment Authority gave environment clearances to distinct complexes of AP …
The Tamil Nadu State Environment Impact Assessment Authority says that the project cannot be appraised as building and construction scheme. CHENNAI: India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) - proposed in Theni district, has run into rough weather with the Tamil Nadu government making it explicitly clear that the project cannot be appraised …
GURUGRAM: The ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF&CC;) has sought a reply from the principal secretary of the department of forest and environment in Haryana on the Bandhwari waste-to-energy plant. The MoEF order comes two months after green activists lodged a complaint with the ministry alleging that HSPCB, …
People from affected villages attend EIA meeting of Chanakha-Korata barrage The environmental public hearing for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the inter-State Chanakha-Korata barrage across Penganga river organised by the Telangana Pollution Control Board at Pippalkuti village in Tamsi mandal on Thursday was all but that. Only one of …
Nagpur: The Channaka-Korta barrage, an inter-state irrigation project between Telangana and Maharashtra being constructed on Painganga River, is a classic case of how environment rules are tossed to the wind. With 50% work on the project completed, shockingly, no environment impact assessment (EIA) has been done by the Telangana irrigation …
Dar es Salaam — Contrary to initial reports, the government has said that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Stiegler's Gorge hydroelectric project that was published in 2009 will not be used to guide the project, instead, a new assessment was done and has already been concluded. Minister of …
Indore: In a first, an environment impact assessment (EIA) was conducted at Meghnagar industrial area to assess the damage caused to the environment by existing chemical industries and formulate preventive measures. A common effluent treatment plant (CETF) is also being developed at Meghnagar industrial area to ensure proper collection and …
NEW DELHI: Being at the centre of controversy since it was proposed in 1995, the four lakh tonne capacity of smelting plant of Sterlite at Tuticorin was rejected by three states – Gujarat, Goa and Maharashtra – before it was finally allowed to be set-up in Tamil Nadu. Sharing details …
The Union government has received no proposal for environmental clearance for the Chardham Yatra Project and so the question of an environment impact assessment (EIA) study of such a project does not arise, government informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently. The environment ministry was responding to a petition in …
