Post Tagged with: "green clearance"

Blanket clearance for another category of mining projects

Blanket clearance for another category of mining projects

August 31, 2021 at 3:36 am 0 comments

The Centre is bent on diluting the public hearing process that is so central to assessing the environmental impact of industrial projects.

Ex-post facto green clearance contravenes  environmental jurisprudence: Supreme Court of India

Ex-post facto green clearance contravenes environmental jurisprudence: Supreme Court of India

August 29, 2021 at 8:52 am 0 comments

“The grant of ex post facto environmental clearance would be detrimental to the environment and could lead to irreparable degradation of the environment. The concept of an ex post facto or a retrospective EC is completely alien to environmental jurisprudence including EIA 1994 and EIA 2006.”

Supreme Court judgement, April 2020

Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2020

Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2020

August 29, 2021 at 7:15 am 0 comments
Centre’s amnesty for green violators

Centre’s amnesty for green violators

August 20, 2021 at 3:16 pm 0 comments

Jayashree Nandi | Hindustan Times The union environment ministry has put together an amnesty scheme for infrastructure and industrial projects that have violated environmental clearance norms. The standard operating procedure (SOP) laid out by the ministry in an office memorandum dated July 7 states that projects that don’t have priorRead More

Nuking Narmada: Uprooting lives and compounding climate crisis impacts

Nuking Narmada: Uprooting lives and compounding climate crisis impacts

April 14, 2021 at 10:34 pm 0 comments

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.