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Environment clearance to more hydel projects in Arunachal

In what could trigger fresh controversies, the NDA Government at the Centre during the last two years has accorded environment and forest clearance to several hydroelectric projects that have a co

Publication Date: 
14/06/2016
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Arunachal, Environment Clearance (EC), Dibang, Hydroelectricity, Forest Clearance, Subansiri, Roads, Environment
Environment

Env Min releases state-wise list of projects given sanctions

The Environment Ministry today released state-wise list of public utility projects which have been given forest and environmental clearances between May 2014 and April this year, highlighting the p

Publication Date: 
08/06/2016
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment Clearance (EC), Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Forest Clearance, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment
Forests

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding felling of trees for widening of NH-87 from Rampur to Kathgodam, Uttarakhand, 31/05/2016

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Friends Vs. Ministry of Environment, Forest & CC & Others dated 31/05/2016 regarding felling of trees for widening of NH-87 from Rampur to Kathgodam, Uttarakhand. NGT disposes of this Application with the directions that there will be no felling of trees for widening of NH-87 from Rampur to Kathgodam unless the concerned authorities have obtained Forest Clearance for felling of trees and have provided compensatory afforestation.

Judgement Date: 
31/05/2016
Tags:
Highways, Deforestation, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Forest Clearance
Mining

Environment ministry panel recommends forest clearance to SCCL's coal project in AP

A high-level panel of the environment ministry has recommended granting clearance to diversion of forest land for state-owned Singareni Collieries Company Ltd's coal mining project in Andhra Prades

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