Adhunik Metaliks bags Greentech Environment Excellence Award 2014

Adhunik Metaliks Limited, engaged in manufacturing of alloy, special and construction steel; mining of Iron and Manganese Ore and into power generation, has bagged Greentech Environment Excellence award 2014 for the third consecutive year.

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Iron And Steel Industry, Awards, India
Air Pollution

China sends government teams to investigate pollution

Twelve teams of inspectors will head to the cities of Beijing, the nearby city of Tianjin and Hebei province to see how authorities are responding to the worst air pollution in months, the Ministry

Publication Date: 
24/02/2014
Planet Ark (Australia)
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China, Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Industrial Pollution, Cement Industry, Coal, Iron And Steel Industry, Hazardous Waste
Land

Land oustees torch Posco site office in Jagatsinghpur

Several land oustees on Sunday torched Posco's containerized office and dismantled a 300-metre boundary wall at Nuagaon in Jagatsinghpur district, triggering fresh tension in the steel company's pr

Publication Date: 
17/02/2014
Sandeep Mishra, Ashis Senapati
Times Of India (Bhubaneswar)
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Orissa (Odisha), Jagatsinghpur (D), Land Acquisitionm, POSCO, Compensation, Agriculture, Rehabilitation, Iron And Steel Industry, Land
Environment

MoEF for legal action against Ardent Steel pellet plant

The company has already shut down its 600,000 mtpa plant at Keonjhar

Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has ordered to initiate legal action against Ardent Steel Limited (ASL), for running a pellet plant without obtaining environmental clearance. Accordingly, the forest and environment department of Odisha government has commenced procedures to file a case against the company.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2014
Sadananda Mohapatra
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Orissa (Odisha), Keonjhar (D), Iron And Steel Industry, Environment Clearance (EC), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Central Expert Appraisal Committee (CEAC), Environment
Mining

Shah Commission says Rs 60K cr lost to illegal mining in Odisha

Government has sent out 146 notices to leading iron and steel makers which were allegedly involved into illegal mining

Shah Commission says Rs 60K cr lost to illegal mining in Odisha
Minerals worth about Rs 60,000 crore were illegally mined in Odisha during 2008-2011, Justice MB Shah Commission of Inquiry said in its report tabled in Parliament today.

Publication Date: 
10/02/2014
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Orissa, Mining, Keonjhar (D), Sundargarh (D), Illegal Trade, Minerals, Iron, Displacement, Tribals, Iron And Steel Industry
Climate Change

Staying with the leaders Europe's path to a successful low-carbon economy

Europe is not alone in taking action to price carbon and promote low-carbon energy, and Europe’s competitiveness is not dependent on its energy prices.

Publication Date: 
06/02/2014
Climate Strategies
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Climate Change, Europe, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Low Carbon Economy, Energy Intensity, Fuel Efficiency, India, Japan, China, Carbon Sequestration, Iron And Steel Industry, Transport, Green Buildings
Environment

Posco submits tree felling documents

Posco India has furnished all information and documents pertaining to the required securing clearance to fell trees at the project site to the state government so that work at the site is expedite

Publication Date: 
05/02/2014
Statesman (New Delhi)
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POSCO, Orissa, Forest Clearance, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Environment Clearance (EC), Iron And Steel Industry, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Trees
Mining

Cartelisation alleged by Karnataka iron ore mines

Base prices doubled in e-auctions; steel makers to move Supreme Court, CCI for intervention; want price fixation agency

Iron ore prices have almost doubled at e-auctions in Karnataka, with one mine after another setting much higher base prices. It has led to the impression that they’ve come together to keep prices of this scarce steel raw material high.

Publication Date: 
03/02/2014
Mahesh Kulkarni
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Karnataka, Mining, Iron, National Mineral Development Corporaion (NMDC), Supreme Court, Mineral-Based Industry, Iron And Steel Industry
Mining

Anti-Posco protest in Sundargarh

About 200 people from Sundargarh's Chelatoka and Fuljhor gram panchayats staged a protest in front of sarpanch office on Tuesday against the state government proposed move to recommend Khandadhar m

Publication Date: 
31/01/2014
Times Of India (Bhubaneswar)
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Orissa (Odisha), Sundargarh (D), Mining, POSCO, Iron And Steel Industry, Panchayats
Environment

Steel Pickling Units Need DPCC Nod to Operate in Delhi

National Green Tribunal today directed that no steel pickling works can function in the national capital without the consent of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC).

Publication Date: 
28/01/2014
Outlook (New Delhi)
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National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), Iron And Steel Industry, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Water Pollution, Yamuna, Industrial Pollution, NGO, Environment

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