Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
A study conducted by the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan (CBA), a non-government organisation (NGO), revealed many flaws in the execution of Kanhar dam project that was revived after some four decades.The project would be coming up in the pocket straddling between Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on Kanhar River, which is a …
A surge in hydroelectric power could displace the iconic region’s indigenous peoples and resources. When Asháninka Indian leader Ruth Buendía realized that a hydroelectric dam on the Amazon's Ene River would displace thousands of her people, she vowed to fight it. The project, she argued, would bring more hardship to …
Addis Ababa — A United Nations mission is due to take place this month to assess the impact of Ethiopia's massive Gilgel Gibe III hydroelectric power project on the Omo River which feeds Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, lying mostly in northwest Kenya with its northern tip extending …
BILASPUR: Residents of many villages in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, besides UP, have been protesting against Kanhar dam being built in Amwar village of Dudhi tehsil of Sonbhadra district of UP. It borders with Chhattisgarh and villages in vicinity are under fear of being submerged. On Tuesday, a large crowd of …
Kanhar Protests. Photo courtesy of vindhyabachao.org Police fired on anti land acquisition protesters at Kanhar dam early morning today when nation celebrates 124th birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar popularly known as popularly known as Babasaheb. The tribal leader Akku Kharwar from Sundari village and around 8 people have been grivieously …
BEIJING — The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued an order preventing dam-building on a stretch of the upper Yangtze River, which will result in the scrapping of a proposed hydroelectric dam near the western metropolis of Chongqing that had been opposed for years by environmentalists. The Xiaonanhai Dam …
(Reuters) - China's environment ministry has refused approval for a hydropower dam on an ecologically vulnerable river already damaged by construction, a rare setback for the country's extensive dam-building program. While the 1,000-megawatt Xiaonanhai project appears scrapped, experts said China's overall plan for dams was on course given pressure to …
Khartoum – The meeting of the water ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan began yesterday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with the aim of adopting an advisory office to conduct studies on the Renaissance Dam being built by Ethiopia on the River Nile. A consultant office of two global …
The Chhattisgarh Government is trying to bring about a sort of mini green revolution around State’s industrial hub Korba by focussing on micro irrigation projects. The Government has approved construction of three irrigation anicuts at a cost of Rs10.48 crore for irrigating 565 hectares of land. The anicuts would be …
The summer of 2015 is going to be tough for farmers who are finding it difficult to get water to irrigate their land. As the monsoon was erratic and inconsistent, not enough water was stored in the state reservoirs, which are now fast drying up. This has resulted in less …
A planned mega-dam in Guatemala, whose carbon credits will be tradable under the EU’s emissions trading system, has been linked to grave human rights abuses, including the killing of six indigenous people, two of them children. Several European development banks and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) have provided …
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a declaration of principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Monday in a meeting of the trio's top leadership in Sudanese capital Khartoum. In a ceremony aired on live television, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam …
A phenomenal Rs 43,600 crore have already been spent on the Sardar Sarovar Narmada project, the state government informed the Gujarat Assembly on Monday. “Till July 2014, a total of Rs 43,633.75 crore have been spent on the Narmada project,” the government stated in a written reply to a question …
Khartoum - President Abdul Fatah el- Sisi of Egypt and Prime Minister Haile Desalgn of Ethiopia are set to arrive in Khartoum today for the signing of the Renaissance Dam historic accord between the Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia, slated for March 23. Mutaz Musa, Chairman of the Ministerial Board for …
Hyderabad: The Telangana state government is preparing for a showdown with the Andhra Pradesh government over the Polavaram and Pattiseema projects in AP. The state government has decided to strongly oppose the AP government’s move to raise the height of the Polavaram project and construction of the Pattiseema project without …
The issue of Polavaram - a multi - purpose irrigation project being set up on the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh and spread across adjoining States - today rocked the Chhattisgarh Assembly, where the Congress members staged a walkout. The main Opposition party MLAs walked out of the House to …
‘Nobody in the seven villages received relief and rehabilitation settlements’. Details of the rights of tribals living in the submergence area of the Polavaram Project, as enunciated by the Forest Rights Act, are not even documented, before which the tribals are being displaced, said a fact finding report by a …
Dam-affected villagers protesting the blocking of Thoubal river for dam cosntruction during the observation of International Rivers Day in Manipur on Saturday. – Correspondent IMPHAL, March 15 – Dam-affected villagers and environmentalists in Manipur have urged the State Government to stop the Mapithel dam construction besides demanding a free flow …
Since its foundation stone laying ceremony conducted around 55 years back, the Gujarat Government has spent near Rs47,000 crore for Sardar Sarovar Dam being constructed on River Narmada, said Gujarat Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama in the House during ongoing Budget Session of the Gujarat Assembly. Chudasama also admitted that despite expenditure …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Om Dutt Singh & Ors. Vs. State of U.P. & Ors. dated 12/03/2015 regarding Kanhar Dam in Uttar Pradesh. The counsel appearing for MoEF submits that the original letter of 1980 granting Forest Clearance to the …
