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 the project and claimed that the project promoter had misrepresented facts to get clearance from the Union environment ministry (see