Jharkhand-based Indian School of Mines will conduct a study on regional environmental impact assessment (REIA) of mining in Goa region, the Union Minister of State for Environment, Ms Jayanthi Nata

Environmentalist Claude Alvares has said that August 12 High Court judgment, which stated that Environment Clearances (EC) under 1994 notification are not valid for more than five years, has put a question mark on the operations of 54 mines in Goa.

PANJIM: Vavurla, a tribal village in Quepem taluka is now solar powered. The hamlet of just over 250 people is, relatively isolated from the rest of the region and can be reached only by an unmotorable road.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) constituted by the Goa Legislative Assembly will now probe into the increasing illegal mining activities, carried out at the cost of forest cover in state’s iron

Even as Goa government is delaying the submission of its proposal for the declaration of Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary as a Tiger Reserve, Union minister for environment and forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan has told Rajya Sabha that under section 38V of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 State governments are authorized to notify an area as a tiger reserve on recommendation of the National Tiger Conservation Authority.

In the wake of recent accidents at mining sites in Goa due to heavy rains, a revised set of safety norms would be issued to the mines that will have to be complied with during monsoon, a senior off

Water Resources Minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues, stated  that Tribunal will begin hearing on the dispute in November while replying to a query at a press conference on Monday here.  He also indicated that the  government has not sat idle while the Karnataka Government  has continued to  carry  works for  diversion  of water on Mhadei  River.

The State Government has thus far been non-committal to Centre’s proposal to declare Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary as tiger reserve and indications are that  it is not likely to do so any sooner.

An  area  of  430 km 2  has been  contaminated and turned saline due to  sea  water ingress  in the inland  aquifers  along  the tidal  river  courses and   also  in low  lying marshy areas according to a study conducted by  Central  Ground  Water  Board ( CGWB) which was released Monday by Water Resources  Department Minister Filip Neri Rodrigues

A day after the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) asked 19 mines to close their operations for failing to renew their consent under Water and Air Pollution Control Act, Government agencies