Land

A landmark development

After learning its lessons from Nandigram, the West Bengal government is willing to try out alternative models of land acquisition and rehabilitation policy

Publication Date: 
10/02/2008
Aarti Gupta
Business India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Singur, High Court, West Bengal, Calcutta (T)
Land

Judgement of the Punjab-Haryana High Court regarding acquiring of land in village Lakarpur, District Faridabad for the development of the Tourist Complex, Surajkund, 21/01/2008

Judgement of the Punjab-Haryana High Court in the matter of Eros City Developers Private Ltd. vs State Of Haryana And Others dated 21/01/2008 regarding acquiring the land belonging to the petitioner (Eros City Developers Private Ltd.) in village Lakarpur, Tehsil and District Faridabad, for a public purpose, namely, for the expansion and systematic development of the Tourist Complex, Surajkund.

Judgement Date: 
21/01/2008
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Faridabad (D), Haryana, High Court, Tourism
India

 Court asks polluting plants in Goa to shut down

the High Court of Bombay at Goa recently asked two industries in Goa to close down their operations. The plants

Publication Date: 
14/01/2008
R Venugopalan Nair
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Industrial Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal, High Court, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), India, Goa, Toxic Wastes
India

 Environmental clearance for Polavaram quashed

Much to the Andhra Pradesh government's dismay, the National Environmental Appellate Authority has quashed the environmental clearance for the state's multi-crore Indira Sagar Project, formerly known

Publication Date: 
14/01/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Dams, Indira Sagar, Polavaram, Irrigation, Displacement, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Andhra Pradesh, East Godavari, West Godavari, Chhattisgarh, Orissa (Odisha)
Water Resources

PIL on privatisation of lakes/tanks in Bangalore

This Writ Petition arrays a range of legal concerns relating to the ongoing privatisation of lakes/tanks in Bangalore and exposes
that such actions are opposed to settled legal norms relating to
management and conservation of such ecologically sensitive
water bodies, which are also wildlife habitats and support a

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
High Court of Karnataka
Tags:
Wetlands, Lakes, Tanks, Water Management, Water Policy, Water Conservation, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), High Court, Karnataka, Bangalore (D)
Environment

Green courts in India : Strengthening environmental governance?

The Constitution of India has been the bulwark of Indian environmental governance.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
Raghav Sharma
Law Environment And Development Journal
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Tags:
Environment, Supreme Court, High Court, Australia, New Zealand, India, Legislation
India

 Kerala coconut industry gets a breather

coconut farmers in Kerala have got tentative relief with the Kerala High Court lifting its stay on a ban on palm oil import through Kochi port. On November 20, the court said no consignment of palm

Publication Date: 
30/12/2007
M Suchitra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Coconut, Palm Oil, Trade, Farmers, Imports, High Court, India, Kerala
Air Pollution

 Songe iron unit asked to shut shop in Goa

on november 28, the High Court of Bombay at Goa ordered a sponge iron plant in south Goa to stop operations within a week. This is not the first time the company has been asked to shut shop. The Goa

Publication Date: 
30/12/2007
R Venugopalan Nair
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Iron And Steel Industry, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), High Court, NGO, India, Goa
Hazardous Waste

Dow shalt pay

Civil society groups resist Dow Chemical

Publication Date: 
24/11/2007
V. Venkatesan, Vidya Venkat
Frontline
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Tags:
Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, High Court, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Toxic Wastes
India

 In court

reliance gas row: In an interim order, the Bombay High Court has ruled that Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) cannot be forced to sell gas from its eastern offshore KG-D6 fields to

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pesticides, Pest Control, Health Effects, Energy Policy, Pesticide Use, Subsidies, Petrochemical Industry, High Court, California, India, Mumbai

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