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 …
Panaji: After scrapping its plans to build a satellite port at Betul, Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) has now turned to Vijaydurg in Maharashtra, where it plans to construct a greenfield port to cater to container, crude oil, fertilizer, and limestone cargo. The Vijaydurg port will be developed in collaboration with …
NEW DELHI: The environment ministry has firmed up guidelines that will require every corporate seeking green clearance to set aside up to 2% of its capital investment for Corporate Environment Responsibility (CER). The guidelines make it mandatory for companies to set aside funds for CER over and above what is …
NHAI asked to conduct Environmental Impact Assessment study and prepare plan to compensate loss of tree cover through massive plantation programme CHENNAI: With the proposed Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway likely to have largescale ecological impact, across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment, …
CHENNAI: The contentious India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) case will come up for admission before the Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Delhi on Friday. Acting chairman Justice Jawad Rahim, judicial member Justice S P Wangdi and expert member Nagin Nanda will decide whether to admit the petition …
Calls for penal action against members of appraisal committee Poovulagin Nanbargal, an environmental group, has moved the National Green Tribunal’s principal bench in New Delhi, challenging the environmental clearance granted to the neutrino observatory project in Theni district. The appeal also sought direct penal action against members of the Expert …
PANJIM: Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) New Delhi that South West Port Ltd (SWPL) cannot be granted any fresh permission or permitted to continue its operations of handling coal and other cargo at berth Nos. 5A and 6A at Mormugao Port Trust …
PANJIM: Union Ministry for Environment and Forest (MoEF) has notified that the Environment Clearance (ECs) granted under EIA notification 1994 to iron ore mines are invalid now and that lease holders will have to apply for fresh ECs within six months. In Goa, 35 operational mines had been granted EC …
VASCO: Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) Deputy Chairman Guruprasad Rai on Wednesday said that he was not only unhappy with but also surprised at the decision of Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) cancelling public hearing (scheduled on April 25) on the proposed development of Vasco bay. “I came to know …
The future of the “New Monrovia,” is one of five areas in Liberia under the Ramsar Convention that the government of Liberia is receiving funding for to protect. All Liberia has to do is to ensure that the area is never inhabited. Report by Henry Karmo, henry.karmo@frontpageafricaonline.com The Convention still …
The High court in Mombasa has dismissed a petition challenging construction of the multi-trillion shilling Lamu coal power plant in Mandu Bay area. In the petition, Activist Okiya Omtata sought a number of declarations among them orders to quash the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) License for the Lamu Coal fired …
The Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) will be seeking environmental clearance for the construction of a jetty at Girgaum Chowpatty, behind Birla Krida Kendra (BKK), the cultural hot-spot of south Mumbai. The MbPT will be applying for it despite the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) not granting permission to construct a terminal …
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs disputed the charge that a Chinese mining company operating in Mozambique has violated environmental laws and harmed the lives of villagers in Nagonha, a coastal town east of Nampula City near the Haiyu corporation’s operations. The report details Haiyu’s heavy sand mining operations, which have …
VASCO: Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) Chairman I Jeyakumar on Thursday informed that the due to unscientific interpretation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2006, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) recently rejected fresh application by M/s South West Port Ltd. However, he said that the port would challenge the …
GURUGRAM: The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) finalised and submitted the much-awaited report on the Bandhwari waste-to-energy plant to the office of the additional deputy commissioner on Wednesday. The report was prepared after a public hearing took place at Bandhwari village on March 21. The report will soon be …
Company does not have valid EC for the project; EC granted in 2001 valid for 5 years PANJIM: In a major setback to infrastructure giant JSW-owned South West Port Limited (SWPL), Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Tuesday rejected their application for grant of fresh Consent to Operate for …
In a major development, India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project which suffered multiple delays for over a decade, was granted environment clearance by (EC) the Ministry of Environment and Forests on Monday to set up the lab in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district weeks after the recommendation of the Expert Appraisal Committee …
The paddy fields in Keezhattur, where a bypass is planned, is situated just seven metres above the sea level. There is no farmland so close to sea level. Kuttanad and the Netherlands are the only places where farming activities are carried out below the sea level. The paddy land acts …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests is yet to even consider the proposal for framing Terms of Reference (ToR) for the second unit of the copper smelter plant of Vedanta Limited at the SIPCOT Industrial Complex in Therkku Veerapandiapuram village in Thoothukudi district. (The ToR is prescribed for projects seeking …
DEHRADUN: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday banned further felling of trees in the Rs 12,000 crore all-weather Char Dham road project, a pet initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The felling of trees has been banned till the next hearing of the matter on April 4 although the …
KOLKATA: A draft notification issued by ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) to ease green norms for building and construction sector projects has drawn a sharp response from urban planners and green activists who view the change as regressive and disastrous. On March 13, 2018, MoEFCC issued a …
