Order of National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamlesh Roj Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 21/01/2025. The issue raised in the application are protection of historical Hingonia Dam from the encroachment from the local residence violating the environmental norms and damaging the area …
CHINA's hopes of completing the largest hydroelectric project in history, received a temporary setback when the Export- Import Bank of the us refused to help finance the Three Gorges dam on May 30. The bank's board voted against issuing letters of interest - which allows foreign countries to buy us …
A letter of protest Was written on May 9, to the World Bank (W8) president James Wolfensohn, by the International Rivers Network and the human rights group Witness for Peace, calling for an independent investigation into the WB's involvement in the building of Guatemala's infamous Chixoy dam, which saw hundreds …
The proposed Nam Thuen II hydroelectric dam could trigger off ecological disaster in the Nakai plateau in central Laos. Largescale logging is going on to clear the 447 sq km area for a huge reservoir for the us $1.2 billion dam. The government sees such dam projects as an easy …
Human endeavours like the building of dams are now being held responsible for the planet spinning a wee bit faster. Benjamin Chao, a geophysicistat NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, US, says that the days are shortening by about O;2millionthsofa second per year. Chao's observations are based on …
The proposed Three Gorges dam in China might just run into rough weather. The US Export-Import Bank is yet to take a decision on whether to lend the money required for the Chinese dam. The Three Gorges is supposedly the largest public undertaking in the world ever since the Great …
Farmers in Burkina Faso's central plateau in Sahel, are turning to traditional practices such as building stone lines, pocket-like pits known as Zaiand permeable stone dams. These increase yields by as much as 80 percent in some of the farms by preventing draining of water, increasing its seepage into soil …
Yet another fracas centering around a dam: the Malaysian government is going ahead with its plans to construct the Bakun hydro- electric dam on the island of Borneo. While the Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced the benefits of the dam in a seminar held recently on the project, the …
WILL it quake or will it not? That is the topic being hotly debated by seismologists and environmentalists regarding the Tehri dam project in Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (up). The latest in the row is a startling finding by a group of scientists of the Roorkee University, up, who say …
A NEW plan of action has been drawn up by the recently reconstituted environmental evaluation committee (EEC) on river valley and hydroelectric projects, under the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF). The committee, which met on January 24, was headed by Anna Malhotra, dnd its agenda was a complete …
THE idea of a dam across the Balui, a tributary of the Rajang river in the jungles of Sarawak, was first mooted a decade ago. It was given the green signal in 1983, cancelled by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in 1990, and then revived three years later. Mohamad justified the …
Location: On the Balui River, 37 km from Belaga town, Sarawak Catchment area: 14, 750 sq km Reservoir area: 69,000 ha, containing 43.8 cu m of water Hydroelectric output: 2,400 MW (eight generating units of 300 MW each) Height of the dam: 205 m Transmission through: • a 170 km …
The Mekong river flowing through six South-East Asian countries is to be arrested by the planned construction of nearly 76 dams. The Mekong Watch Network (MWN) a coalition of NGOs, academics and journalists - based in Japan - has called for an expression of solidarity against the proposed projects. The …
China is going ahead with its plans to build the Three Gorges dam billed as the world's largest water- control project on Yangtze river, despite concerns raised by environmentalists. They have voiced fears about the fate of millions of people who would be displaced forcibly. Besides, the dam would destroy …
LATE October 1995, the Gujarat government asked the Dutch company Haskoning to prepare a pre-feasibility report of the Kalpsar project - envisaging a 30-km long dam in the Gulf of Khambat between Bhavnagar and Bharuch. The proposed 2,000 sq km area enclosed by the Rs 9.76-crore dam would hold sweet …
The Himalayan mountains constitute an ecological system naturally primed for disaster. The deep gorges through which the Himalayan rivers flow convey the impression that the Himalayan valleys would never face floods. Yet these very channels often fail to contain the fury of disastrous floods. Among the most affected valleys are …
THE Sardar Sarovar dam on Narmada river has been exposed to more damages, according to a press release by Narmada Bachao Andolan. More than 15,000 cubic megatonnes (cu mt) of cement has been washed away in addition to an indefinite number of foundation rocks. A substantial section of the sloping …
Aquatic weeds need no longer be just a nuisance. Kaiser Jamil, a scientist from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, reports that weeds such as water hyacinth can remove toxic inorganic and organic pollutants from waterbodies. Air pollution ruins medicinal plants, says a study conducted by the botany department …
The Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project in China, once promoted as a major money-spinner for multinationals, is now turning out to be a liability for Beijing. The international financial agencies as well as private investors are steering clear of the project, which has been at the recieving end of a …
THE Bisalpur dam in Rajasthan will finally see the daylight. The World Bank (WB) has decided to fund the Jaipur Water Supply Project which will receive water from the Bisalpur dam under construction in the state. The announcement came in early August. This is a part of the Rs 3,000 …
THE Sikkim Himalaya stands square in the path of long-term ecological desecration today as the spectre of development looms over it. To tackle energy shortage, the Sikkim government has proposed a hydro-electric project across the Rathong Chu river meandering through Yuksam in west Sikkim. Sikkim has been classified as a …
