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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Environmental/Forest Clearance for Major Projects, 21/07/2015

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Environmental/Forest Clearance for Major Projects, 21/07/2015. The offshore and on-shore oil and gas exploration, development & production activity listed at item no. 1(b) in the Schedule of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Notification 2006 requires prior Environmental Clearance (EC). While granting EC,4 stage processes namely Screening, Scoping, Public Consultation and Appraisal of project are involved. Total 24 Ecs have been granted to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) since May 2014 till 17.07.2015.

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance, CRZ Clearance (Coastal Clearance), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), India, Statistics, Parliament
Environment

High Level Committee report to review various acts administered by Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change

This report tabled by Parliamentary standing committee on Science and Technology in the Rajya Sabha has asked the Ministry of Enviroment and Forests to appoint a new high-level committee to review environmental laws

Publication Date: 
21/07/2015
Rajya Sabha
Tags:
Environment, Forests, Wildlife, Regulations, India, Environment Act 1986, Forest Act 1980, Wildlife Act 1972, Water Act 1974, Air Act 1981, Forest Act 1927, Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance, CRZ Clearance (Coastal Clearance), Wildlife Clearance, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Mining

Coal mine auctions: 12 out of 28 winners wait for clearances to start mining

Projects stuck on land, environment, forest clearances

Publication Date: 
15/07/2015
Debabrata Das
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mining, Coal, Forest Clearance, Land, Jharkhand, Ministry of Coal, Environment Clearance (EC)
Forests

NGT permission must for tree felling in linear projects

NAGPUR: Two days before the principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi will hear the NH7 tree felling case on Friday, the state government has issued guidelines on July 1, for linear

Publication Date: 
03/07/2015
Vijay Pinjarkar
Times of India (Nagpur)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Trees, Nagpur (T), Eco-Sensitive Zone, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), High Court, Deforestation, Forest Clearance, National Green Tribunal (NGT)
Forests

Law ministry tells Prakash Javedkar only tribal ministry can tweak forest act rules

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has lost round one in his fight against Jual Oram-led tribal affairs ministry on easing rules for projects in tribal areas.

Publication Date: 
02/07/2015
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Tribals, Forest Clearance, Orissa (Odisha), Mining, Power Transmission, Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Energy

Rejected by experts, Dibang hydro project gets green nod

India's largest hydroelectric project has been given all the requisite clearances by the environment ministry in spite of repeated rejections by its own experts.

Publication Date: 
24/06/2015
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Arunachal, Dibang Valley, Hydroelectricity, Dams, Forest Clearance, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)
Mining

New policy allows mining leases in Devasthan land too

JAIPUR: The new mineral policy has not even spared god's property from mining activities.

Publication Date: 
08/06/2015
Saurabh Sharma
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Rajasthan, Mining, Forests, Land, Forest Clearance, Udaipur (D), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Forests

Green ministry to submit affidavit in SC detailing two broad categories of forests

NEW DELHI: The environment ministry may have given scores of forest clearances over the years but it has decided on a definition for 'forest' only now, that too after being prodded by courts.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2015
Anubhuti Vishnoi
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Clearance, Supreme Court, Forest Act 1980, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Land, Forests
Forests

MoEF restores right to appeal against forest clearances

The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has restored the right to appeal against forest clearances given to linear projects reversing its previous orders of August 2014 and January 2015, foll

Publication Date: 
28/05/2015
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Clearance, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Infrastructure Development, Roads, Power Transmission, Forests
Habitat And Urbanisation

1,000 roads in Kumaon await forest clearance

A large number of villages in the Kumaon region are still without road connectivity as over 1,000 sanctioned roads in rural areas in Bageshwar and Almora districts have not been given forest cleara

Publication Date: 
26/05/2015
BD Kasniyal
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Bageshwar (D), Rural Roads, Almora (D), Forest Clearance, Habitat And Urbanisation

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