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Mining without damaging environment high on Centre’s agenda: Javadekar

Working with Coal Ministry towards this end, says Environment Minister

Publication Date: 
28/09/2015
Amiti Sen, Richa Mishra
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mining, Coal, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environmental Security, Ministry of Coal, Eco-Sensitive Zone, Environment Clearance (EC)
Environment

NGT to hear plea challenging fine on Akshardham on Oct 5

The National Green Tribunal will hear on October 5 a plea challenging its order in which it had quashed two office memoranda of the Environment and Forests Ministry and imposed a fine on Akshardham

Publication Date: 
28/09/2015
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Environment Clearance (EC), Religious Places, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Delhi Development Authority (DDA), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Environment
Environment

NGT refuses to decommission Uttarakhand project

The National Green Tribunal has refused to order decommissioning of 400 MW Vishnu Prayag Hydro Electric Project, world’s largest hydro-power project in private sector, located on the upper reaches

Publication Date: 
28/09/2015
Akanksha Jain
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Vishnuprayag Project, Environmental Security, Ecology, Alakananda, Environment Clearance (EC), Biodiversity, Environment, National Green Tribunal (NGT)
Mining

NGO challenges govt’s renewal of mining leases

PANAJI: Goa Foundation, the NGO that took the state government to the Supreme Court over illegal mining in the state has once again knocked the Supreme Court's doors to challenge the state governme

Publication Date: 
25/09/2015
Times Of India (Goa)
Tags:
Goa, Mining, NGO, Environment Clearance (EC), Supreme Court, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
Environment

Fertiliser plant gets green nod

The Union environment and forests ministry has accorded environmental clearance to Rs 5,465 crore fertiliser plant proposed at Ramagundam in Khammam district.

Publication Date: 
25/09/2015
Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)
Tags:
Telangana, Fertiliser Industry, Environment Clearance (EC), Khammam (D), Central Expert Appraisal Committee (CEAC), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment
Water Resources

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding Vishnu Prayag Hydro Electric Project, River Alakananda, Uttarakhand, 24/09/2015

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Bharat Jhunjhunwala Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/09/2015 regarding Vishnu Prayag Hydro Electric Project located on the upper reaches of River Alakananda in Uttarakhand.

The Applicant prays for restitution of the environmental damage resulting from this project and order payment of compensation to affected parties in accordance with the ‘Polluter Pays Principle’. In the alternative, he prayed to commission a study of this project on various aspects including cost benefit analysis.

Judgement Date: 
24/09/2015
Tags:
Alakananda, Rivers, Dams, Hydroelectricity, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance, Ecology, Compensation, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Floods, Landslides, Himalaya
Mining

Union Mines Ministry seeks list of mines wanting EC and FC

PANJIM: The Union Mines Ministry has directed all iron ore mining States, including Goa, to submit a list of cases, wherein the environmental clearance (EC) from Ministry of Environment and Forests

Publication Date: 
23/09/2015
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Goa, Mining, Forests, Land, Environment Clearance (EC), Mines Act 1957, Mineral - Based Industry
Environment

MoEF lifts EC abeyance of two more leases

The Union Ministry for Environment and Forest (MoEF) has lifted the abeyance on the environment clearance (EC) of two more iron ore mining leases after State Forest Department clarified that the le

Publication Date: 
23/09/2015
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Goa, Environment Clearance (EC), Mining, Forests, Land, Environment, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Mining

Draft Notification on Environment Clearance for sustainable sand mining and mining of minor minerals

The government has come up with a draft notification for a new sustainable sand and minor mineral mining policy. It specifies where mining should be allowed or prohibited based on sustainability guidelines and monitoring of resources using scientific tools.

Publication Date: 
22/09/2015
Ministry of Environment, Forests and CIimate Change
Tags:
Sand, Mining, Minor Minerals, Environment Clearance (EC), India
Environment

Brick kiln owners on warpath

Meerut: As many as 400 brick kiln owners converged on Commissionary Crossing here on Monday to protest against "harassment" caused by "impractical requirements in fulfilling provisions of environme

Publication Date: 
22/09/2015
Sandeep Rai
Times Of India (Meerut)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Meerut (D), Bricks, Environment Clearance (EC), Industrial Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mining, Environment

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