Extremely damning
This multi purpose project has the potential of solving the region s problems but at enormous environmental cost
This multi purpose project has the potential of solving the region s problems but at enormous environmental cost
local farmers and residents of Sipat in the Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh have registered a massive protest against the location of a 3,000 megawatt super thermal power station in the
The link between acid rain and avian waste
smog sends 53,000 people to the hospital each summer and triggers more than six million asthma attacks in the eastern United States, according to estimates released by clean air activists.
There is growing opposition to the setting up of a power plant in Madhya Pradesh
Dumping and disposal of fly ash discharged from coal or lignite based thermal power plants on land
A notice has been issued by the Karnataka High Court to the ministry of environment and forests (MEF) on a contempt petition filed by Janajagriti Samiti, an environment support group. The Samiti has
in may 1998, the ministry of environment and forests had issued a notification for conservation of the top soil of agricultural land. The draft Gazette notification (No.DL33004/98), dated May
The Delhi High Court has said that it will pass orders to shut down the Indraprastha Thermal Power plant in Delhi if immediate steps are not taken for treating effluents being discharged into the
The Supreme Court (SC) reserved its verdict on whether a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe should be ordered on Rs 4,500-crore Cogentrix power project in Karnataka. The project was cleared
Bloody clashes took place between police and demonstrators, who were protesting against the construction of a new power plant. The new coal-fired power plant was due to be built in Pracuab Khiri
Nuraicholai, previously a quiet coastal village in Sri Lanka, inhabited by mostly Roman Catholics and Muslims farmers and fisherfolk, has become hot bed of protest. The villagers are opposing
A stay order issued in public interest by a court must outweigh the public interest of completing a project in time
The Supreme Court makes the petitioner in a public interest litigation accountable
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court granted an interim stay on the operation of an order of the Karnataka High Court directing the state government to get a first information report (FIR)
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation of an ambitious 300-megawatt (mw), coal-fired power plant project at Barapukaria in the country's northern district of Dinajpur
Even as environmentalists protest, the controversial Cogentrix thermal power plant is cleared by the Supreme Court
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
...or raw materials for the industries?
Maharashtra government is none too keen to talk on Enron