EIA Watch

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar | The Wire Science New Delhi: A number of environmental groups have raised objections to the Haryana Government’s push to a waste-to-energy (WTE) project at the Bandhwari landfill site in the Gurugram Aravalli. While questioning the need to expand the project from 15 MW to 25 MWRead More

Sonali Huria | The Leaflet On December 15, 2018, a public hearing got underway amid strong armed police presence and public protests for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the proposed extension of the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant (Units 5 and 6). While in-principle approval for the setting up of 2×700 MWe PHWRsRead More

In the name of “strategic importance”, the Executive can now exempt any project from public consultation, thereby frustrating the whole objective of Environmental Impact Assessment.

Being positioned as a future alternative to Jawaharlal Nehru Port or JNPT in Mumbai, the Gujarat government has been planning to develop a port in Valsad since 1997.

Gaurav Sarkar | Mid-Day

Civil society organisations, individuals write to union environment minister, seek transparency in the finalisation of draft EIA notification 2020

Even the COVID-19 pandemic has been no deterrent for the current government which continued diluting environmental clearance norms to promote ‘ease of doing business’.

Kumar Sundaram | The Ecologist

The building of the proposed Chutka nuclear plant in the tribal-dominated Mandla district in central India will mean the local population will be displaced – for the second time. It will also contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions. Faced with injustice and threats to their safety and livelihoods, villagers have started a two-month long campaign.

Sonali Huria | The Ecologist

The targeting of environmental justice groups shows how the Modi government’s criminalization of dissent is gaining pace.

Kumar Sundaram | The Ecologist

In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack, labeled ‘enemies of the state’ and a threat to economic growth.

Akshaya Nath | India Today

The ‘kolam protest’ against EIA 2020 draft was organised by members of the civil society in Tamil Nadu. The organisers said initially the plan was to organise public gatherings, but due to the prevailing coronavirus pandemic, it was decided that they would voice their opposition by making colourful kolam designs.