Category: Mining

The Reclamation and Rehabilitation Plan proposed for residents of villages ravaged by mining activities, under the Comprehensive Environment Plan for Mining Impact Zone (CEPMIZ), is going to be revised again for the fourth time.

The first plan for Rs. 1,590 crore was proposed in November 2014 to be implemented in three years. It was revised in February 2016 with an increased outlay of Rs. 3,700 crore, to be implemented in five years.

It was revised further with an outlay for Rs. 4,500 crore. Read more

Courtesy: The Hindu

Goa’s pollution control agency has decided to allow the JSW group to import coal through the state, less than a year after it filed a criminal case against the company and banned its operations for violating air quality laws. A fresh permit, known as “consent to operate”, would be issued to the company to handle four million tonnes of coal each year, the Goa State Pollution Control Board announced on June 29.

The decision is a setback to the growing public movement against the transport of large quantities of coal through the state. Since last year, several village panchayats have passed resolutions demanding that coal handling be banned in the state. Civil society organisations have raised concerns about air pollution as a result of coal dust, the loss of livelihoods this could cause for small fishermen and the risk it could pose to endangered marine species. Read more

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