Panel asks RIL to submit additional material to ascertain project’s impact on environment as it fears serious threat to marine life in the vicinity

Veerappa Moily may have to deal with a Reliance problem again, this time in the environment ministry. Reliance Industries’ expansion plan for its facilities at the Sikka port in Gujarat’s Jamnagar is facing a green wall. A statutory environmental panel flagged some concerns over the project. The ministry, where Moily took charge in late December, considers this panel’s recommendations for giving environmental clearances.

As only 19 mines have started iron ore production, supply still not sufficient to meet raw material requirement of steel industry

The year 2014 is set to herald better days for the ore-starved steel industry in Karnataka. The Supreme Court appointed Monitoring Committee to oversee E-auction of iron ore in the state is readying to put on auction additional 4-5 million tonnes of iron ore dumps, which contain mostly sub-grade iron ore (with Fe content of 45-50%), for auction as the demand and supply gap still remains wide.

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday described the Gadgil panel report on the Western Ghats as the “roadmap” for conservation of the ecologically-sensitive hills and hoped it co

Madhav Gadgil, eminent ecologist, has alleged that 1,700 illegal quarries are operating in the crest line of sensitive areas of the Western Ghats in Kerala.

Dr. Gadgil, who had chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, the report of which led to an uproar in the State, was speaking at a function organised by the Central University of Orissa, Koraput, to confer the Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) on him.

‘Implementation of Kasturirangan panel report will hit 40 lakh people in Kerala’

Western Ghats People’s Protection Forum has approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) here seeking to quash the recent notification of Union Ministry of Environment of Forests (MoEF) to implement suggestions of the Kasturirangan panel on Western Ghats conservation.

NEW DELHI: Among the first decisions the new environment minister Veerappa Moily took on Tuesday was to seek fresh opinions on the ban on big projects in the Western Ghats after a meeting with Maha

Moily to write to CMs of six states to examine recommendations of Kasturirangan panel report

In one of his first acts as environment minister, Veerappa Moily is revisiting the Kasturirangan working groups’s report on the Western Ghats, which provided the blue print for conserving the bio-diversity rich region.

This is an eco-sensitive zone, involving massive infrastructure, they say

Around 50 environmentalists from across the country have written to the Union Environment Ministry that Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Statue of Unity, envisaging a 182- metre statue of Sardar Patel inside Narmada river, 3.2 km downstream of Sardar Sarovar Dam and Shoolpaneshar Sanctuary, was working without environment approval.

The State Cabinet, on Thursday, set up a sub-committee headed by Forest Minister Ramanath Rai on fixing buffer zones around four wildlife sanctuaries and 27 national parks in the State.

The expert panel set up by the government to formulate Kerala’s response to the report of the Kasturirangan committee on the conservation of the Western Ghats is considering an economic compensatio