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Jayanthi to take up investment board issue with PM

New Delhi Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan, who has raised objections to the proposed National Investment Board (NIB), on Monday said that she would speak to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue.

“We will speak to the PM about the reservations we have on the issue. Whatever I have to say, I will say it in the Cabinet to the PM. But I will protect the interest of the environment,” she said.

Publication Date: 
23/10/2012
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Parliament, Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance, Environment
Environment Clearance (EC)

CSE disagrees with finance ministry: says no need for National Investment Board (NIB)

CSE has strongly rebutted the Union ministry of finance's claim that green clearances are leading to inordinate delays in infrastructure projects and has also rejected the proposal to set up a National Investment Board (NIB), which will dismantle the regulatory systems for green clearances.

Publication Date: 
20/10/2012
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance, Industry, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Public Hearing, Mining, Thermal Power Plants, Coal
Industry

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal on M/s OPG Power Gujrat Private Ltd. & Ors.Vs Husain Saleh Mahmad Usman Bhai Kara & Ors. dated 18-10-2012

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal on M/s OPG Power Gujrat Private Ltd. & Ors.Vs Husain Saleh Mahmad Usman Bhai Kara & Ors. dated 18-10-2012.

Publication Date: 
18/10/2012
National Green Tribunal (NGT)
Tags:
Power Industry, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Coastal Regulations, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Forest Clearance, Environment Clearance (EC), Marine Fisheries, Air Pollution, Wastelands, Kuchchh, Gujarat
Environment Clearance (EC)

Environmental and Forest Clearance accorded from 13.07.2011 to 12.07.2012 by Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of Environment and Forests

Ministry of Environment & Forests from 13.07.2011 to 12.07.2012 accorded environmental clearance to 209 development projects and approved 1126 proposals involving diversion of 15, 639 hectares of forest land.

Publication Date: 
12/10/2012
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance, India, Industry, Thermal Power Plants, Hydroelectricity, Coal, Mining, Highways, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Forest Act 1980, Forest Conservation
Environment

Steps taken by various sectors of the Indian economy to control pollution

The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, present this two hundred and thirtieth report on steps taken by various sectors of the Indian economy to control pollution.

Publication Date: 
30/08/2012
Rajya Sabha Secretariat
Tags:
Pollution Control, India, Environment, Coal, Mining, Transport, Occupational Health, Road Transport, Highways, Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance, Noise Pollution, Emissions Inventory, Rail Transport, Energy, Power Transmission, Industry, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Forests

Posco in limbo

The National Green Tribunal's decision to suspend the environmental clearance given to Posco vindicates the project's critics.

Publication Date: 
04/05/2012
V. Venkatesan
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), POSCO, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Environment Clearance (EC), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Forests, Sundargarh (D), Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Land Acquisition, Forest Clearance, High Court
Industry

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding the Forest Clearance granted to POSCO in Jagatsinhpur district of Orissa by the MOEF, 30/03/2012

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Praffula Samantra Vs Union of India and Others dated 30/03/2012. This appeal is filed against the final order dated 31.1.2011 of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, imposing additional conditions to the Environmental Clearances in respect of (i) steel cum captive power plant project and (ii) captive minor port project of M/s POSCO India (for short POSCO) during the year 2007.

Judgement Date: 
30/03/2012
Tags:
POSCO, Ports, Iron And Steel Industry, Forest Clearance, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Tribals, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Jagatsinghpur (D), Orissa
Industry

Response of the Ministry of Coal to CSE's fact sheet on environmental and forestry clearance to coal mining projects

Response of the Ministry of Coal to CSE's fact sheet on environmental and forestry clearance to coal mining projects.

Publication Date: 
15/11/2011
Ministry of Coal
Tags:
Coal India, Environment Clearance (EC), Ministry of Coal, Sunita Narain, CSE, Forest Clearance, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Government Of India (GOI), Coal Industry
Dams/ Irrigation

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India regarding rehabilitation for those displaced by the Narmada projects, 26/07/2011

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Narmada Bachao Andolan Vs State of Madhya Pradesh dated 26/07/2011 regarding allotment of land in lieu of land acquired and non-compliance of R&R Policy for the oustees of the Narmada Projects. Supreme Court notes rejects the appeal of the appellant for granting agricultural land to landless labourers to the extent of 2 hectares.

Judgement Date: 
26/07/2011
Tags:
Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Landless, Rehabilitation, Supreme Court, Madhya Pradesh, Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance, Khargone, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Energy

Walking the tightrope

A recent order may have exempted PV solar projects from environmental clearance, but experts have their concerns about the rationality of this decision.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
R Gupta
Energy Next
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Tags:
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Environment Clearance (EC), India, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Power Industry, Thar Desert, Forest Clearance

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