Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Judgement of the High Court of Jharkhand in the matter of Tata Steel Limited Vs Union of India & Ors. dated 12/03/2014 regarding the validity of Rules 64B and 64C of the Mineral Concession Rules, 1960 inserted by the Central Government, Ministry of Mines and the petitioner also challenges the …
Locals put up a barricade on the main entrance of Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Ltd yesterday to press home their five-point demands Hundreds of locals put up a barricade on the main entrance of Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Ltd yesterday to press home their five-point demands, including compensation for the …
New Delhi : Operations of top steel and mining companies, including Tata Steel, SAIL, Aditya Birla Group's Essel Mining, JSPL and Sarda Mines, are likely to get affected if a recommendation by the Justice M B Shah Commission to ban mining along the Baitarni river in Odisha is accepted. The …
An operation in Namibia owned by the same parent company suffered a breach of its leach tank, injuring employees A week before a uranium mine in Kakadu National Park spilled a million litres of radioactive slurry a Rio Tinto-owned African mine had a similar accident. Rio Tinto owns Energy Resources …
Residents along the Athabasca River, which flows through the oil sands region of Alberta, are being advised to avoid drinking from the waterway after contaminated fluids were released from a coal mine storage pond. The warning was issued after an undetermined amount of water and sediment, including shale and coal …
Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, assigned to conduct an environment impact study (EIS) on Goa's mining, has found high air pollution in the state's five mining talukas. It also found that the figure of 45 million tonnes of iron ore exports from Goa is too high and has decided …
In northern China, near the Mongolian border, radioactively contaminated leaks from two decades of rare earth refining have been slowly trickling underground toward the Yellow River, a crucial water source for 150 million people. In Jiangxi province in south-central China, the national government has seized control of rare earth mining …
Considering the fact that iron ore dumps have more environmental impact than mining operations, the Centre for Environment and Education (CEE) said that a separate environmental clearance (EC) for dumping and handling of such iron ore waste outside the lease areas should be acquired apart from the ECs granted for …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Goa Paryavaran Savrakshan Sangharsh Samitee Vs M/s Sesa Goa Ltd Ors dated 11/10/2013. NGT has directed that no new lease, shall be granted for any mine, which falls within eco sensitive zone or protected Forest or sanctuary, within territory of …
Even as the Union Mines Ministry is in the process of framing dump policy for the iron ore producing States across the Country, the Goa Mining (Major Mineral) Policy 2013, has decided to allow dump handling outside the mining lease area provided the land can be converted to agricultural use …
The state government has finalized the mining policy and is likely to notify it shortly so as to submit it before the apex court next week. Admitting that the development is on account of the Supreme Court asking about the regulatory mechanisms in place to check illegal mining in Goa, …
A four-member Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal, headed by Justice S N Hussain on Thursday refused to issue notices or summons to two former chief ministers Digambar Kamat and Pratapsing Rane for damages caused by illegal and unauthorised iron ore mining in the state. It was adjudicating on …
The government has notified the Mining Dump Policy that seeks to regulate dumps of ore stacked outside lease areas. The State cabinet had earlier cleared the policy that seeks to regulate dumping of ore rejects in private and government property and wants to thwart the creation of additional dumps in …
The State Mining Policy 2012 which is to be submitted to the government next week has recommended capping of ore exports to 45 Million Tones (MT), of which 25 MT can be tapped from low grade ore from dumps. The Directorate of Mines and Geology department which re-vetted the policy, …
The much debated draft State Mining Policy 2012, which was the bone of contention between the State and Central Government over handling of dumps, would be finally announced on July 15 and notified by the month end. The policy recommends capping of ore exports to 45 million tones (MT) of …
Units ordered to close many times, but reopened soon after It is now the seventh year of protest. But, for the residents of Kenchanakuppe, Dasappana Doddi, Kallagopahalli and Thammanadoddi coming under Kenchanakuppe Gram Panchayat, next to Bidadi, the struggle to get the stone quarrying and crushing units closed continues. About …
Miner BHP Billiton has been given until the end of 2016 to halt most of the pollution discharged from one of its coal mines into the Georges River south-west of Sydney, a verdict that has split environmental groups. The NSW Environmental Protection Authority altered the pollution licence for BHP's West …
Supreme Court judgement dated 18/04/2013 in W.P.(C) No. 562/2009 Samaj Parivartana Samudaya & Ors. Vs. State of Karanataka & Ors in the context of mining of Iron Ore and allied minerals in the State of Karnataka.
SHILLONG: UDP legislator Paul Lyngdoh said that unscientific mining has continued to wreck havoc on the environment despite the State having come up with the Meghalaya Mines and Mineral Policy, 2012. “Many of the rivers have been polluted due to the ongoing unscientific mining,” Lyngdoh said during Question Hour in …
VASCO: The Goa Barge Owners Association (GBOA) on Monday once again urged the State government to consider its request to bail it out of the mining crisis. During a meeting with Mormugao MLA and Power Minister Milind Naik, GBOA President Atul Jadav stated that the government should allow export of …
