The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited’s Kochi refinery expansion, paving the way for the facility here to become the largest public sector refinery in the country.

Completion of the Integrated Refinery Expansion Project will take the capacity of the refinery to 15.5 million tonnes a year from the current level of 9.5 million tonnes.

Identified blocks don’t have the required green clearances which might alter valuations and put off potential bidders

The Prime Minister’s Office has given its go-ahead to the finance ministry’s proposal to set up a National Investment Board (NIB), asking it to rework the cabinet note and bring it for formal appro

Will be valid for a period of five years

The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has granted environment clearance for 11 more sand quarries in the Cauvery-Coleroon river basin. A few days ago, the SEIAA had granted clearance for 10 new sand quarries in Tiruchi, Karur, Ariyalur, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur and Namakkal districts. In the second batch of clearance, 11 quarries have been approved, sources told The Hindu on Friday.

The State Government has urged the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to place minerals enlisted in List-1 of Minor Minerals Rules under B-2 category.

KOLKATA, 8 NOV: The state government is contemplating sending a joint delegation with representatives from leading business chambers to Delhi to press the Centre to lift the embargo on environmenta

The Centre on Wednesday maintained in the Supreme Court that for establishment of a desalination plant for Units 1 and 2 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, no fresh environmental clearance was required.

Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran made this submission before a Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra, hearing the Kudankulam case.

Non-payment of dues worth Rs 680 cr may lapse acquisition process

After an expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the Union environment ministry deferred green clearance for the Rs 16,000-crore Ultra Mega Power Plant (UMPP) in Odisha, the mega power plant faces hurdle over private land acquisition. The entire process of acquisition of private land measuring 2732.56 acres runs the risk of getting lapsed for the 4000 MW plant due to non-passing of award within the statutory period.

The proposed National Investment Board (NIB) is to be reworked by the finance ministry, and it could be remodeled along the lines of cabinet committee on infrastructure.