Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
India and France have resolved to strengthen and widen bilateral ties and have made commitments to increase cooperation on a range of issues, including high end defence technology and nuclear energy during the visit by French Foreign Minister Alian Juppe. After extensive talks between Juppe and his Indian counterpart S …
The Government is committed to the Jaitapur nuclear project in Maharashtra and is awaiting completion of French review of safety aspects of the EPR design, the Minister for External Affairs, Mr S.M. Krishna, said on Thursday. The French firm Areva is providing six EPR units for the proposed nuclear plant …
The Centre has announced the setting up of a 15-member group of experts to interact with stakeholders in a bid to allay widespread apprehensions about the upcoming Kudankulam nuclear power project. The Department of Atomic Energy’s decision to constitute the expert group, which is being seen as a neutral body …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the Centre will announce the setting up of a high-level group on the Kudankulam nuclear plant issue “today or tomorrow.” Dr. Singh had offered to set up a group to assuage the fears of the local population and the State government in a letter …
Japan has not ruled out the possibility of complete closure of its nuclear power stations as one option for the country's future energy policy after the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years, economy minister Yukio Edano said. "I am certain that we are going to reduce nuclear power generation …
Japan is reconsidering plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020 due to a rethinking of its energy future, and the country is worried that it is spending too much on carbon-credit programs, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Japan currently plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% …
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, has reiterated the Government's stand that work on the Kudankulam nuclear power project should resume only after the Centre allays the fears of the people on safety issues. In a statement released to the media, the Chief Minister said that the Centre …
NPCIL told to submit evidence to back safety claims If the commissioning of the first two units of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) has been stalled by protests from locals backed by the State government, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is sweating it out with the Union …
A conference of the Paristhiti Samrakshana Ekopana Samithi (environment protection coordination committee) here on Monday called upon the Union government to take steps to address the fears of people about the Kudankulam nuclear power plant project. A statement in this connection said the fears should be seen in the backdrop …
Blaming the Centre’s “inaction” for the stalemate over the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant issue, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, today said her government was firm on suspension of the work on the controversial project till people’s concerns were addressed. In a strongly worded statement, she slammed the …
In a case of dueling studies, research commissioned by opponents of nuclear power indicates that electricity in New York State would remain reliable and reasonably priced if the Indian Point nuclear reactors were permanently shut down. The findings directly contradict those of experts hired by the Bloomberg administration. The opponents, …
Renewable energy has created a "gold rush" atmosphere in Germany's depressed north-east, giving the country's poorhouse good jobs and great promise. The natural resources attracting investors and industry are of a simple variety: wind, sunshine, agricultural products and farm waste such as liquid manure. The rush to tap green resources …
The anti-Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) agitation was temporarily called off by the activists on Sunday to enable people to vote in the local body elections, a representative of the protesters said, amid reports of villagers harassing employees of the plant. "We have decided to call off the agitation temporarily …
Villagers continued to protest outside Tamil Nadu's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) on Friday, preventing employees of the plant from going inside to work. The villagers’ protest against the commissioning of the 2,000-mw nuclear power plant got a boost after Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram opted to be on their side …
The Centre on Saturday termed the action of anti-Kudankulam nuclear power plant activists in preventing scientists and employees from going to work at the unit as “unfortunate” and appealed to them to join negotiations on the issue. Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s office, V Narayanasamy told reporters in …
Two NGOs and prominent ex-bureaucrats on Friday moved a PIL in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of nuclear civil liability law and sought a comprehensive safety review of all nuclear installations in the country by an independent expert group. NGOs ‘Common Cause’ and Centre for Public Interest Litigation …
The Centre today termed as “unfortunate” anti-Kudankulam nuclear power plant activists preventing scientists and employees from going to work at the unit and appealed to them to come to the negotiating table. “It is unfortunate — the kind of stopping people (from proceeding to work)... My request is let us …
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday assured the people living in the vicinity of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project that her government would act in such a manner as to respect their views on the issue. “I will be one among you on this issue,” she said, addressing a …
Anti-nuclear power activists protesting against the 2,000 MW Kudankulam nuclear power project on Thursday put up a road block, stopping scientists and engineers from reaching the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC). The protesters also stopped about 6,000 contract workers to enter the plant. An NPC official at the Kudankulam plant told …
Stepping up their protest against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant, agitators on Thursday staged a roadblock in front of the plant site, preventing entry of scientists and workers into the complex. The protest hitherto confined to fast took a new turn even as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa assured the …
