PANJIM: Goa Legislative Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is assessing the quantum of illegal ore that has been mined in the state, has issued notices to 46 mining companies for extracting iron ore without complying with environmental norms.
All 46 companies have been asked to submit the clarification as to why no objection certificates (NOCs) were not obtained from the forest department before extracting the ore.
Poor garbage management and sanitation dogs Corlim village which adjoins World Heritage Sites of Old Goa, while the panchayat plays with people’s health.
PANJIM: Henceforth, stocking and sale of firecrackers will be disallowed in the State, if they do not conform with standards prescribed by Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, as amended.
MARGAO: With just a month to go for the commencement of work at the Sonsodo waste dumping site, tentatively in the first week of October, no decision has been taken on Fomento’s proposal for capping of the site on the lines of Gorai dumping ground in Mumbai.
Environmentalist Prof Rajendra Kerkar has requested farmers of Sattari taluka not to panic in the wake of a notification of the wildlife sanctuary.
“As many as 31 villages in Sattari come under this Abhiyaran and only uncultivated land of these 31 villages may be declared or brought under the Abhiyaran,” said Kerkar.
The fourth ‘Global Initiative for Restructuring Environment and Management’ (GIREM) leadership summit that started in Goa yesterday, will conclude on October 1.
PANJIM: State Mines and Geology department has asked all the mine owners, who were issued closure notices by Goa Sate Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), to submit the compliance reports immediately.
Goa Government has refused to fund Corporation of the City of Panjim’s proposed garbage treatment project at Bainguinnim this year, although Goa Government steering committee had trumpeted that there was no need to apply for funding under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and instead state government would fund it.
Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has sanctioned Rs 2.02 crores to Indian School of Mines to conduct study on Regional Environmental Impact Assessment (REIA) of mining in Goa region, MoEF Minister Jayanthi Natarajan told Rajya Sabha Tuesday.
