No problems with Goa project, Environment Appellate Authority says THE National Environment Appellate Authority last month dismissed an appeal that had challenged environmental clearance to a high-grade iron ore plant in Sanguem taluka in Goa. In September 2008, Sushant Naik, a Sanguem resident, had filed the appeal and alleged discrepancies in the environmental impact assessment report of

Supreme Court

KOLKATA: Cals Refineries, a part of the Spice Energy Group of industries, has received environmental clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for its project in Haldia, West Bengal. The company proposes to set up a five million tonne per annum refinery.

Latha Jishnu / New Delhi May 28, 2009, 0:58 IST

A secret report aims to make environmental clearance a standardised exercise that bypasses critical requirements.

PREETI KARMYOGI, NEW DELHI
The tourism ministry is working overtime to make cruise tourism a reality.

The ministry has chalked out bottlenecks and strategy to deal with each of them on paper. The ministry is also planning to give exciting sops to private partners for development of infrastructure for cruise tourism.

With the interested companies seeking certain modification in the conditions for the execution of proposed aerial ropeways in the state, these projects are not likely to take off before next year.

These projects of the Tourism Department have already suffered delay due to the coming into force of the election code of conduct for the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

The last hurdle in the way of a second airport for Mumbai, at Navi Mumbai, was cleared by the central government on Monday.

The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) issued a notification granting exemption to the second airport from costal regulatory zone (CRZ) regulations, on the lines of an earlier exemption granted for an airport at Port Blair in the Andamans.

Mumbai The Centre on Monday cleared environment and coastal regulation zone (CRZ) hurdles in the path of the proposed Greenfield Navi Mumbai international airport.