In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Less than a week after the Justice M B Shah Commission submitted its report on Goa’s illegal mining of iron ore and manganese indicating that mining leases got green clearances based on wrong facts, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Wednesday suspended the environmental clearances to 93 mines in the state …
The Centre has asked the Goa government to “immediately restrict” all activities regarding removal of minerals from dumps located outside the mining lease areas. “The state government should immediately restrict all activities for removal of mineral from the dumps located outside the lease areas, till an appropriate mechanism is evolved …
JAIPUR: Nearly 68 hectares of forest land in Tijara area in Alwar will be handed over to the state mining department for mining. The state mines department is preparing a fresh proposal for the same, which would be forwarded to the forests and environment department, which in turn would send …
PANJIM: The large group of activists and concerned citizens who descended on the Goa State Pollution Control Board office on Tuesday have demanded the government shouldn’t renew even a single ‘consent to operate’ licence and instead reject the applications for renewal filed by the 90 operational mines by September 25. …
PANJIM: Activists across the board have scoffed at the Government decision to halt all mining activity till action is taken against all, saying that the decision to shut mining, but allowing transportation of ore in transit was encouraging illegal mining. Leading the war cries Ramesh Gauns, punched holes in Parrikar’s …
Goa temporarily halted iron ore mining from Tuesday to check if operations were legal, a move that is expected to further dent exports from India and support flagging global prices. Sesa Goa, which gets most of its iron ore from Goa, said business would suffer but it hoped the halt …
Clearances To Miners Violated Norms: Panel New Delhi: The Justice M B Shah Commission’s indictment of the Union environment ministry for disregarding norms and Supreme Court orders to give clearances that facilitated rampant iron ore mining in Goa covers the period when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held charge of the …
Monsoon Anyway Halts Ore Extraction; Exports Allowed New Delhi: The Shah Commission report may give the people of Goa only a temporary reprieve from the impacts of mining with the state government permitting trade of already extracted ore that has been termed illegal by the panel. The Manohar Parrikar government …
Growing public outcry over illegalities in leases cited in Commission report The Goa government on Monday suspended the operation of all existing mining leases with effect from Tuesday. This has been done to scrutinise clearances obtained by the leaseholders and not to allow continuation of operations without verification of requisite …
PANJIM: Environmentalist Rajendra Kerkar on Monday alleged that inspite of Union Ministry pressing for a proposal to declare Mhadei wildlife sanctuary as ‘tiger reserve’, Goa government is reluctant in moving the proposal, which will lead to the closure of several mines, operating around the sanctuary. Addressing a meeting called by …
PANJIM: Environmental activists, who for last several years had been crying foul over illegal mining in Goa, have welcomed the Government’s historic move to suspend mining operations in all 90 mining leases with effect from Tuesday. The activists, who had gathered under the banner ‘Citizens Action Group’ on Monday in …
Panaji: The over 60-year-old mining industry in Goa has been ordered to shut all operations until further orders. A notification suspending all operations was issued by the state government following the indictment of former CM Digambar Kamat by the Shah commission, which inquired the illegal mining in the state. The …
Mines in the western Indian state of Goa were ordered to close on Tuesday after a government-backed inquiry estimated illegal trade in iron ore had cost more than $6.0 billion in five years. The state Mines and Geology department directed in a notice that all mines suspend their operations until …
Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that besides decentralisation and simplification in the mining sector in Madhya Pradesh, transparent arrangements have also been ensured. Though some complexities are there even now, but these will be removed after considering all the aspects. Even the Central Government has talked about …
The Karnataka government would “fully cooperate” with the CBI probe into the illegal extraction of 5.07 million tonnes of iron ore in 17 months from the state’s forests, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Sunday said. “We will fully co-operate with the CBI in conducting the probe into the Belekeri iron …
The Supreme Court will start proceedings in the case against some companies involved in the illegal transportation and export of iron and manganese ore from Belekeri Port near Karwar on Friday. Founder chairman of National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR) S R Hiremath stated that during the proceedings, …
National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR), which is spearheading a campaign against illegal mining in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, on Thursday urged all stakeholders to work for the effective implementation of a recent Supreme Court order. Addressing presspersons here, NCPNR president S.R. Hiremath said that the stakeholders, including …
Viewing poaching with cross-border linkages as a “major problem” to wildlife conservation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked intelligence and enforcement agencies to co-ordinate better to break the nexus between those involved in the illegal activity and their markets. Addressing a meeting of National Board for Wildlife here, Singh …
Revenue Department officials headed by Tiruchengode Revenue Division Officer (RDO) S. Kavitha surveyed four granite quarries in Paramathi Taluk on Wednesday. This included the two mines that were mined by the PRP group in Periyasolipalayam village near Kabilarmalai in Paramathi-Velur Taluk. On August 31 the officials issued a notice to …
Authorities in a major Chinese coal-producing province on Wednesday announced they had shut down 754 illegal mining sites in an intensive five-month crackdown since April. The crackdown was targeted at the unlicensed operation of mines and illegal mining under the cover of projects concerning ecological restoration, village resettlement and rural …
