1,000 acres of land yet to be acquired by the company

The Centre came out confident today that with the renewal of environment clearance, South Korean steel giant Posco’s project in Odisha would take off soon.“The government is working to expedite clearances for the $12-billion project of steel major Posco in Odisha that was awarded environment clearance last week,” Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said in Delhi on Wednesday.

Fishermen have sought intervention of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to stop setting up of the proposed Posco captive port near the Jatadhari river mouth.

पर्यावरण के लिए कॉरपोरेट प्रोजेक्ट्स को पर्यावरणीय मंजूरी के मुद्दे पर सियासत

पर्यावरण के नाम पर कोई ज्यादती तो नहीं हुई...• वस, नई दिल्ली : पर्यावरण संस्था ग्रीनपीस ने केंद्रीय पर्यावरण मंत्री एम. वीरप्पा मोइली से तत्काल इस्तीफा देने को कहा है। संस्था ने कहा है कि मोइली ने पर्यावरण मंत्रालय का कामकाज संभालने के बाद जिस अंधाधुध तरीके से परियोजनाओं को मंजूरी दी है, वह पर्यावरण के हितों के खिलाफ है।
को जरूरी मानता है।

Ex-environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan may have dismissed speculation that delays in green clearances for several highvalue projects led to her ouster, but environmental nods to over 70 project

Approvals come ahead of South Korean president Park Geun-hye’s visit to India

Odisha chief minister Na veen Patnaik has cleared the way for Posco to prospect the Khandadhar region, which has an estimated iron-ore reserve of 200 million tonnes, days after the central government removed a major hurdle faced by the South Korean major.

MEA says site allotment for S Korea deferred due to pending projects

South Korea’s first lady President Park Geun-hye has a lot to cheer about the environmental clearance to Posco’s Rs 52,000-crore steel plant project in Odisha after an eight-year delay, but she will be disappointed with Delhi’s decision to go slow on the bilateral nuclear pact and not allot any site for the reactor during her four-day visit to India beginning January 15.

Activists may move NGT against revalidation by ministry

It may not be a smooth ride yet for South Korea steel major Posco’s integrated steel plant project in Odisha. The project’s forest clearance, currently pending before the National Green Tribunal, may not be the last hurdle for the South Korean company. Opponents of the project are questioning the legality of the ministry’s decision to revalidate the environmental clearance as well.

The Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Odisha (Idco), the land acquisition agency for the Posco's mega steel plant near Paradip in Odisha, has asked the chairman cum managing dire

Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta's plan to mine Niyamgiri

The Union Environment Ministry has taken a decision in two high profile cases, rejecting the forest clearance for Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha, and renewing the stand-alone environmental clearance for Posco’s eight million tonnes per annum steel plant.

The environment ministry under Veerappa Moily has approved the $ 12.6 billion Posco steel plant in Orissa, the biggest foreign direct investment in India.