Wildlife

Scoping mission to the Dhamra Port Project

In July 2006, Aban Marker Kabraji, IUCN Regional Director for Asia met Mr. Ratan Tata, Chairman of the TATA Sons in Mumbai to discuss various aspects of environment and corporate social responsibility for TATA

Publication Date: 
01/12/2006
IUCN
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Ports, Dredging, Wildlife, Turtles, Bhitarkanika NP, Gahirmatha Marine SA, Larsen & Toubro (L & T), Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Orissa (Odisha)
Mining

Underdevelopment by design?

Based on primary source material, this paper unravels the undermining of development of vital transport infrastructure in Orissa, namely, Paradeep port and a proposed railway line for exploiting the rich mineral resources of the state

Publication Date: 
18/02/2006
Keshab Das
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Ports, Dredging, Transport, Rail Transport, Public Sector, Politics, Orissa (Odisha), Cuttack (D), Keonjhar (D), Infrastructure Development
Hazardous Waste

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding dumping of hazardous waste in India, 05/01/2005

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Research Foundation for Science Technology and Natural Resources Policy Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/01/2005 regarding dumping of hazardous waste, India. The matter relates to 133 hazardous waste oil containers lying at Nhava Sheva Port, Mumbai, Maharashtra. Supreme Court directs for the destruction of the consignments by incineration. The cost of incineration shall be deposited by the importers with the Monitoring Committee within four weeks.

Judgement Date: 
05/01/2005
Tags:
Hazardous Waste, Ports, India, Imports, Waste Incineration, Supreme Court, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Waste Disposal
India

 Remarkably clean

Port cities set up by Dutch colonists had ingenuous drainage systems

Publication Date: 
29/04/2004
Pranay Lal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ports, Drainage, Trade, Asia, United States Of America (US)
India

 FOLLOW UP

A US ship laden with neurotoxic mercury on its way to India

Publication Date: 
14/03/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ports, Mercury, Hazardous Products, Imports, Public Participation, United States Of America (US), India
India

 FOLLOW UP

It is a point won by the people

Publication Date: 
29/06/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ports, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Public Participation, NGO, Politics, Gujarat
Climate Change

 The new rule

Of the people. By the people. But against the people?

Publication Date: 
14/06/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ports, AIDS, Public Participation, Governance, Political Parties, NGO, Politics, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Corruption
Water Pollution

 Troule in Black Sea

work on a new oil terminal on the Black Sea coast has led to renewed concerns over environmental safety in one of Russia's most beautiful regions. At a ceremony at Yuzhnaya Ozereika, near

Publication Date: 
14/06/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ports, Black Sea, Petrochemical Industry, Public Participation
Air Pollution

 FOLLOW UP

Environmentalists have stoutly opposed the construction of the proposed Dharma port in Orissa. According to Banka Behari Das, an eminent environmentalist in the state, the government should not allow

Publication Date: 
30/08/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ports, Endangered Species, Sanctuaries, Orissa (Odisha)
India

 Protest over port

over 6,000 fisherfolk, farmers, tribals and artisans took part in a protest march in coastal Maharashtra recently against the setting up of India's largest industrial port at Vadhwan by Peninsular

Publication Date: 
30/12/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ports, Farmers Movement, Maharashtra

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