Mining

Vedanta scouts for new mines

VEDANTA ALUMINA chief operating officer, Dr Mukesh Kumar, on Wednesday met Orissa steel and mines minister, Mr Raghunath Mohanty, and urged him to provide alternative bauxite mines for the company

Publication Date: 
09/09/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Vedanta Aluminium, Mining, Orissa (Odisha), Bauxite, Aluminium Industry, Kalahandi, Public Hearing
Dams/ Irrigation

Expectations run high over Jairams public hearing

ITANAGAR, Sept 7: Expectations are running high over the proposed public hearing on hyro power projects in the north east especially amongst anti-dam protagonists like the All Assam Students

Publication Date: 
08/09/2010
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Public Hearing, Dams, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Lower Subansiri, Assam, Arunachal, North East, Dams/ Irrigation
Mining

N C Saxena panel report for investigation into proposal by the Orissa mining co. for bauxite mining in Niyamgiri

This expert panel report on Vedanta's bauxite mining
project in Orissa submitted to MoEF on August 16, 2010 says that the
company must not given permission for this project as it has illegally
occupied forest land andwill also threaten survival of local tribes. <br>

Publication Date: 
16/08/2010
N C Saxena, Amita Baviskar, S Parasuraman, Promode Kant
Ministry of Environment & Forests
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Mining, Bauxite, Hydrology, Wildlife, Ecology, Elephant, Dongria Kondh, Displacement, Forest Rights Act 2006, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Vedanta Aluminium, Public Hearing, Air Pollution, Water Pollution
Environment

MoEFs assertion on First User rights faces objection

ITANAGAR, Aug 12: The Union Ministry of Environment & Forests

Publication Date: 
13/08/2010
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Arunachal, Rivers, Environment, Public Hearing
Dams/ Irrigation

Villagers set RR Policy 2007 as condition to allow Dibang Project

 

From a Correspondent

Publication Date: 
11/08/2010
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Dibang, Rehabilitation, Dibang Valley, Arunachal, Public Hearing, Dams/ Irrigation, Dams
Dams/ Irrigation

Public hearing on Dibbin Project conducted

BOMDILA, Aug 1: A Public Hearing for grant of Environmental Clearance (EC) in respect of the 120 MW Dibbin Hydro Electric Project under Nafra circle in West Kameng district was held on Friday last at Nafra Community Hall, reports DIPRO.

Publication Date: 
02/08/2010
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Dams/ Irrigation, Dams, Hydroelectricity, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Arunachal, West Kameng, Sentinel (Guwahati), Public Hearing
Industry

Vadaseri distillery: Ball in MoEF court

THE Madras High Court has directed the secretary of Union Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Delhi, to afford sufficient opportunities to all the parties concerned before arriving at any decision on the issue of establishing a distillery unit at Vadaseri village in Thanjavur district by the Kings India Chemicals Corporation Limited, owned by the kin of former Union Minister and DMK functionar

Publication Date: 
16/07/2010
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Industry, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Thanjavur (D), New Indian Express (Chennai), Public Hearing
Industry

Villagers letter to MOEF regarding public hearing of asbestos fibre cement roofing sheet factory in Chainpur

This is a letter written by local villagers to MoEF regarding the public hearing of proposed Asbestos Fibre Cement Roofing Sheet factory of M/s Balmukund Cement & Roofing Ltd. Proceeding was very biased and did not provide proper opportunity to the local representatives who had adverse opinion about the project.

Publication Date: 
06/07/2010
Tags:
Asbestos, Industrial Pollution, Industry, Cement Industry, Bihar, Muzaffarpur (D), Public Hearing, Muzaffarur
Habitat And Urbanisation

Govt postpones GSPCB environmental public hearing

The government has postponed the Environmental Public Hearing by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) in view of the proposed widening of NH-17 until the exact details of the project are made available.

Publication Date: 
02/07/2010
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Roads, Highways, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Goa, Herald (Panjim), Public Hearing
Solid Waste

DMK cadre hijack public hearing

Sangeetha Neeraja | ENS

Partymen gag residents opposing the Kondungaiyur dumpyard project Of the 400 people who live around the Kondungaiyur dumpyard and were present at the public hearing, only four were allowed to speak

Publication Date: 
20/06/2010
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Solid Waste, Waste Management, Tamil Nadu, Public Hearing

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