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 …
the Union finance minister's (fm's) announcement to restore a five per cent custom duty on the import of steel scrap for melting has given some hope to shipbreakers. The announcement has come at a time when the ailing shipbreaking industry in Alang was striving to get over the setback of …
A Russian court has upheld a federal government's decision to dismiss Vitaly Sadovnikov, director of Mayak, the nation's main nuclear waste processing plant in the Ural mountains. Sadovnikov had sanctioned the dumping of millions of cubic metres of liquid radioactive waste into the Techa river in 2001-2004. Though the facility …
jn-nurm gets a chair: The Union ministry of urban development has appointed Ramesh Ramanathan, founder of Janaagraha, a citizens' movement on participatory democracy, as the honorary national technical advisor and chairperson of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The mission aims to ensure citizens' participation in the integrated development of …
The Czech government has stepped up border checks and vowed to increase monitoring of remote farmland areas after officials discovered over a dozen sites that German companies were illegally using to dump their waste. The Czech environment ministry is now ascertaining the extent of the illicit waste disposal trade between …
helpful germs: Scientists have found a bacteria that could help transform disposable cups and plates into a biodegradable plastic, according to a recent study. The useful microbes are a special strain of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida, according to Kevin O'Connor of University College Dublin, Ireland, the study's corresponding author. …
I still remember the sharp chill that went down my spine when I first set my gaze upon Alang shipyard on a spring afternoon in 1996. As far as I could see from my elevation at the north end of the yard, there were nearly a hundred vessels, or what …
For the third time, Le Clemenceau has been forced to turn back and return to France. The French government summoned the decommissioned ship back even though France's defence minister argued that there were no suitable scrapyards in Europe. Clemenceau had been waiting outside Indian territorial waters for permission to dock …
The presence of toxic waste in Sydney Harbour in Australia has forced authorities to invest around us $150 million in a clean-up programme. They also put an end to centuries of commercial fishing and have warned recreational anglers not to eat the harbour fish. These steps were taken after tests …
The decommisssioned French warship Le Clemenceau may be on its way back, but all is not well at Alang. Another French ship China Sea Discovery caught fire at the shipyard on February 17, 2006, killing five labourers. The 19,000 tonne passenger vessel, now owned by Kishor Bansal, went up in …
the Bangladesh government has banned the decommissioned Norwegian cruise liner, S S Norway, from entering its shores after receiving information that it was carrying 1,250 tonnes of asbestos. The ban came after the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (bela) threatened legal action if the ship was allowed into Bangladesh's territorial waters. …
The French are truly living up to the methods of their hymned revolution by trying to force their lethal waste, Le Clemenceau , on India rather than treat the dead ship on their own territory. The French revolutionaries of 1789 perpetrated the Reign of Terror, amongst the most reckless massacres …
How hazardous is dismantling a decommissioned ship? It does have dangerous substances like asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) and spent oil. Who should be allowed to engage in shipbreaking? What rules exist to ensure the safety of labour involved in dismantling ships and the environment? A brief recap is essential for …
sunita dubey Arlington, usa us legislators and public interest groups are strongly opposing the proposed changes to a publicly available database on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities by certain industrial and federal facilities. The database
By the time you read this, the decision would have been taken: to allow or not to allow the French warship Le Clemenceau into India, so that it can be dismantled with unknown quantities of toxic substances in its structure. The decision could be to send the ship back for …
thirty-five communities in Michigan, the us , lost a 15-year-old battle to prevent hazardous chemicals from being injected into the ground with a possible chance of contamination of underground aquifers. The state issued a license to Bingham Farms-based Environmental Disposal Systems to operate two 4,500-feet (about 1,370 metre)-deep injection wells. …
Pak industries checked: Punjab environment minister Makhdoom Ashfaq Ahmed announced recently that the Punjab environment protection department would hit hard on industries violating environmental norms. He said that the self-monitoring and reporting tools programme (to assess and report the volume of hazardous waste generated by industries) shall be implemented stringently. …
