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Cheyyur power project trips over environmental clearance [1]

The Rs 24,200-cr coastal project has run into trouble because of differing views on its threat to local ecology

The government's attempt at reviving investor interest in its flagship Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP) scheme after a four-year lull is headed south - quite literally. One of the two such newly-announced projects in Cheyyur village, 96 kilometre south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, has been engulfed in a controversy spanning economic, social and ecological domains.

Publication Date: 
21/11/2013
Sudheer Pal Singh [2]
Business Standard (New Delhi) [3]
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Tamil Nadu [4], Chennai (D) [5], Environment Clearance (EC) [6], National Green Tribunal (NGT) [7], Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) [8], NGO [9], Flora [10], Fauna [11], Public Hearing [12], Coastal Regulations [13], Mangroves [14], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [15], Environment [16]
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