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We recently got together with our partners for a one day training workshop on Green Clearance Watch (GCW) Portal on November 19, 2012. The program brought together our partners who have helped us to cover public hearings around the country and will be working with us in future.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on September 14, 2012 has constituted a committee to look into violations of environmental and coastal regulation zone clearances by Adani Port and SEZ Ltd. in Mundra taluka of Kutch district in Gujarat.
Puts out new data to prove that green clearances are not delaying infrastructure projects
A public information system to track environmental and forest clearance of industrial and development projects in key sectors from April 2007 till date
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Are environment and forest clearances a hindrance to development in the country? No, says our study. The study analyses the environment and forest clearances granted during the 11th Five Year Plan, from April 2007 till August 2011. The pace of such clearances during this period has been unprecedented. Click on the below links to find more on the study
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) carried out a technical analysis of the Executive Summary of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the proposed Grain/Molasses based distillery and a Co-generation Power Plant (2.2 MW) by Malwa Brew & Alcohols (India) Pvt. Ltd. This was based on a request from Prakash Patidar of Khargone, Madhya Pradesh. EIA Analysis Attached
The government seems to be succeeding in pushing through the proposal to build a nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district of Haryana. Much of the opposition seems to have melted away after the farmers affected by the project received compensation at the rate of Rs 46 lakh per acre (0.4 hectare) from the Haryana government.
Public hearing of the capacity expansion of coal washing facility by Hind Energy, Hingadih village, Chhattisgarh - Part I
Photograph courtesy: Sri Alok Putul (Senior Journalist) In the hot-seat of Chhattisgarh, another controversial public hearing took place in the process of granting environmental clearance to the proposed expansion of a coal washing facility.
In a stirring judgement passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the green signal given to South Korea’s Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) to go-ahead with their mega steel project in Odisha has been suspended.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) carried out an analysis of the EIA report of the "Expansion of the sponge iron plant to produce 97,000 TPA of M.S.Billets and 65 MW Captive Power"
Centre for Science and Environment carried out the technical analysis of the EIA-EMP report of Gare Pelma Block III coal mining and washery. This was on a request from Raghubeer Pradhan of Ekta Parishad. The project is to come up in the Mand-Raigarh coalfields in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. Read the review: