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‘Strategic’ nuclear plants may no longer require green clearance

‘Strategic’ nuclear plants may no longer require green clearance

October 18, 2021 at 2:43 pm 0 comments

The government is looking to free up the environmental clearance process for strategic nuclear power projects from the purview of the union environment ministry in view of the high confidentiality and national security interests involved.

Waste-to-Energy project expansion in the Aravallis and a farcical public hearing

Waste-to-Energy project expansion in the Aravallis and a farcical public hearing

September 11, 2021 at 7:48 am 0 comments

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

Twin-tunnel link roads infrastructural project near Mumbai exempt from precautionary EIA study

Twin-tunnel link roads infrastructural project near Mumbai exempt from precautionary EIA study

September 6, 2021 at 5:31 pm 0 comments

Two key infrastructure projects – the twin-tunnel link roads between Goregaon-Mulund and Thane-Borivli – which will pass under the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), are expected to begin construction within the next year. Both the projects have been exempted from carrying out a precautionary environmental impact assessment (EIA) study.

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Clearance for Ujh dam deprives Jammu’s tribal community of their legal rights

September 6, 2021 at 9:55 am 0 comments

Two years after the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, forest rights under Indian law are denied to its tribal communities. The initial clearance to drown forests for a prestigious Rs 9,167-crore dam in Jammu, for example, is a web of false official claims, ignoring the legal rights of pastoral communities whose homes and livelihoods the dam will destroy.

Dilutions in the Coastal Zone Regulation Notification allow for developmental projects in “wastelands” of coastal villages

Dilutions in the Coastal Zone Regulation Notification allow for developmental projects in “wastelands” of coastal villages

September 1, 2021 at 1:34 pm 0 comments

Meenakshi Kapoor | IndiaSpend.com The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change made key dilutions in the law that regulates land use along India’s coastline after its draft was closed for public input, an IndiaSpend investigation shows. These dilutions in the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 2019, allowed for future easing of building restrictions in coastalRead More

How the revised green clearance norms will impact women

How the revised green clearance norms will impact women

September 1, 2021 at 12:54 pm 0 comments

Courtesy: Centre for Social Justice The Environment Impact Assessment Draft of 2020 by the Union Government has received a lot of criticism. The notification states certain changes that go against the very purpose of conducting an environmental impact assessment. The notification makes the following changes: It allows for post-facto clearance meaningRead More

How India is engineering nuclear landscapes through charades of green clearance

How India is engineering nuclear landscapes through charades of green clearance

September 1, 2021 at 4:06 am 0 comments

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

SoP on green clearance undermine EIA regime

SoP on green clearance undermine EIA regime

August 31, 2021 at 5:39 am 0 comments

Anubha Aggarwal | Down to Earth Magazine The latest guidelines from the Union Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to prevent violations of green norms actually seem yet another attempt to weaken the  Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) regime. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had asked the ministry to formulate a standard operatingRead More

Diluting clearance norms for polluting industries is an invitation to environmental disaster

Diluting clearance norms for polluting industries is an invitation to environmental disaster

August 31, 2021 at 4:01 am 0 comments

The new rules will allow polluting units to expand their operations and change their product mix without full scrutiny, say experts.

Industries violating coastal laws can get away by paying compensation

Industries violating coastal laws can get away by paying compensation

August 30, 2021 at 7:26 pm 0 comments

Environmental experts note that the implementation of a new government order will make it easier for the violators to get their illegal projects regularised.