Chronology Of Events
July 1987: Karnataka Power Corpora-tion Limited (kpcl) notifies a 2 x 210 mw coal based Thermal Power Station at Nandikur.
August 1987: mef issues guidelines for citing of Thermal Power Plants under epa 1986.
1988- '89: mef rejects the kpcl project on environmental grounds. kpcl exits, handing over the project to the National Thermal Power Plant (ntpc).
August 1991: Karnataka hc dismisses writ petitions challenging the site clearance to ntpc.
September 1991: An expert of the mef makes a site assessment and conditionally clears the ntpc project only for 2 x 210 MW.
December 1991: The sc rejects a special leave petition against the August hc order. The hc says that the plant would not be constructed until the mef and the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs clear it. ntpc abandons the project.
1992: Karnataka government representatives invite Cogentrix
1995: Commissioned by the state government in 1992, danida submits the report of a Rs 19 crore study on the eco-logy of the Dakshina Kannada. The study terms the district as "ecologically fragile".
June 1996: mef clears the Mangalore Power Company (mpc) project , a subsidiary of Cogentrix, under section 3 of the Environment Protection Act (epa) 1986.
November 1996: The Supreme Court asks the neeri to assess five projects including the mpc project.
December 1996: neeri submits its report.
August 1997: hc dismisses a writ against setting up the power plant.
February 1998: sc quashes a writ against the hc order.
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