Centre orders enquiry into violation of mining norms
15 years, 4 months ago

Centre orders enquiry into violation of mining norms

The Hindu  

The Centre has ordered an enquiry into violation of the terms of “in-principle” approval for bauxite mining by Vedanta, a private company, granted by the Orissa Mining Corporation. In a letter, Minister of State Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has asked the Orissa administration to explain how the violation was permitted when there were clear guidelines that “in-principle” approval granted for bauxite mining projects in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts on February 26 under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 should be converted into final approval, after fulfilment of stipulations, before any activity was undertaken. Guidelines to States Importantly, on August 3 this year, the Ministry issued guidelines to all State governments that any application for diversion under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 would be considered only after all due processes contained in the Scheduled Tribe and Other Forest Dwellers Act, 2006 were fully and satisfactorily completed. A letter has also been sent to the Orissa government to provide evidence of compliance before the Centre could examine conversion of ‘in-principle’ to final approval.

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Do Minor Mineral Rules Stipulate Action Against Contractor For Indulging In Illegal Mining Beyond Scope Of Contract: Gauhati HC Asks State
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Do Minor Mineral Rules Stipulate Action Against Contractor For Indulging In Illegal Mining Beyond Scope Of Contract: Gauhati HC Asks State

Live Law  

The Gauhati High Court on Monday asked the State Authorities, whether there is any provision under the existing mineral rules for taking action against the erring contractor, who has flouted the conditions of the lease or has illegally extracted the minor minerals out of the scope of the contract. The division bench comprising the Chief Justice Vijay Bishnoi and Justice …

Agitation brewing against move on bauxite mining
9 years, 7 months ago

Agitation brewing against move on bauxite mining

The Hindu  

The State Government’s talk of reviving bauxite mining in the Scheduled Areas of the State has kicked up a controversy. Tribal activists are on the warpath against the move to resume bauxite mining under the aegis of the AP Mineral Development Corporation, Integrated Tribal Development Agency and DWCRA groups. Former Union tribal welfare minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo told The …

Full U-turn: Modi govt may scrap required tribal nod to use forest land
10 years, 6 months ago

Full U-turn: Modi govt may scrap required tribal nod to use forest land

Firstpost  

Various ministries are debating means to ensure that the approval for the use forest land for industrial purposes be cleared directly by the Centre. According to a report in the Business Standard, the Modi government is quietly setting the stage to do away with the need for consent from local tribal bodies to cut down forests for industries. The exclusive …

AP govt. to take relook at bauxite mining issue
10 years, 7 months ago

AP govt. to take relook at bauxite mining issue

The Hindu  

The Andhra Pradesh Government has launched an exercise to review a stand on the contentious bauxite mining issue. The MoU signed by the AP Mineral Development Corporation during 2005-07 have been put under abeyance by the UPA-II Government in August 2010 following strong objections raised by then Araku MP V. Kishore Chandra Deo and others against mining in Scheduled Areas …

Fear of fresh bid for bauxite mining haunts tribal people
10 years, 8 months ago

Fear of fresh bid for bauxite mining haunts tribal people

The Hindu  

Attention maybe turned to exploration of bauxite ore after opening floodgates to greater private participation in coal mining by the National Democratic Alliance Government. The mining lobby, which was lying low for quite sometime after the UPA-II put in abeyance all clearances accorded to bauxite mining in the Scheduled Areas of Visakhapatnam and East Godavari, has stepped up its effort …

Posco cleared, Vedanta loses bid for Niyamgiri project
11 years, 2 months ago

Posco cleared, Vedanta loses bid for Niyamgiri project

The Hindu  

The Union Environment Ministry has taken a decision in two high profile cases, rejecting the forest clearance for Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha, and renewing the stand-alone environmental clearance for Posco’s eight million tonnes per annum steel plant. The rejection of Vedanta’s proposal to dig in the Niyamgiri hills came after 12 village councils of Dongriya …

Possible rejection for Vedanta’s bauxite proposal
11 years, 7 months ago

Possible rejection for Vedanta’s bauxite proposal

The Hindu  

The door could soon be shut on Vedanta’s proposal to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills of Odisha. The Union Environment Ministry has decided that the claim of even one village council for cultural or religious rights over the hills provides the legal mandate to the Central government to reject the proposal under the Supreme Court orders. In a letter …

Green Tribunal orders notice to Centre, State govt
11 years, 7 months ago

Green Tribunal orders notice to Centre, State govt

The Hindu  

The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Friday ordered notice to Central and State government authorities on a plea to stop alleged illegal sand mining in the Coastal Regulation Zone in Tirunelveli district. A Tirunelveli-based non-governmental organisation has alleged that a private company had been mining for the past 18 years, without obtaining environmental clearance, in Karaichithuputhur, near Radhapuram, Tirunelveli …

Forest land cannot be diverted for Vedanta project, says Centre
12 years, 1 month ago

Forest land cannot be diverted for Vedanta project, says Centre

The Hindu  

Justifying the cancellation of the environmental clearance granted to Vedanta for the Lanjigarh Bauxite mining project in Odisha, the Ministry of Environment and Forests on Friday said that forest land cannot be diverted under the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006. In its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the MoEF said: “The diversion …

SC Hearing On Niyamgiri Vedanta Project Posted To January
13 years, 7 months ago

SC Hearing On Niyamgiri Vedanta Project Posted To January

India TV News  

New Delhi, Aug 23 : The Supreme Court today refused to accord an early hearing to Orissa government's plea challenging the Centre's decision to withdraw environmental clearance given to Vedanta group firm Sterlite for its bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills. Brushing aside the state government's plea for an early hearing to its objections to the Centre's move, a bench …

No green nod for mining in Niyamgiri forests
13 years, 8 months ago

No green nod for mining in Niyamgiri forests

The Hindu  

Union Environment Ministry on Saturday made it clear that no green nod has been given to Orissa Mining Corporation to mine bauxite in the sensitive Niyamgiri Reserve Forests in the State and the status quo remains. The Ministry said the issue of environmental clearance to Orissa Mining Corporation’s Lanjigarh Project has become “practically redundant” as it had withdrawn the forest …

Orissa moves SC against denial of green nod to Vedanta
14 years ago

Orissa moves SC against denial of green nod to Vedanta

The Hindu  

The Orissa government today approached the Supreme Court challenging the Centre’s decision to reject environmental clearance to Vedanta bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills. Challenging the Environment Ministry’s order of August 24, 2010, the State government filed an application through Orissa Mining Corporation, contending that the Centre’s decision was in violation of the Supreme Court’s previous order giving a green …

Enforcing environmental law
14 years, 7 months ago

Enforcing environmental law

The Hindu  

Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has acted boldly and impartially by relying on scientific expertise and rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. The transparent manner in which the Ministry went about assessing environmental concerns and the impact the project would have on tribal groups …

Orissa may give us alternative site: Vedanta
14 years, 7 months ago

Orissa may give us alternative site: Vedanta

The Hindu  

Vedanta, whose proposal to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, was rejected by the Centre on Tuesday, says the Orissa government “is actively considering allocation of an alternative source of bauxite to Vedanta's alumina refinery.” In a statement, it also reiterated that there were “no regulatory violations of any kind at the Lanjigarh Alumina refinery.” The Union Ministry of Environment …

Rejection of environment clearance to Vedanta unfortunate: Orissa
14 years, 7 months ago

Rejection of environment clearance to Vedanta unfortunate: Orissa

The Hindu  

The Orissa government today termed as “unfortunate” the Centre’s decision to reject environment clearance to Vedanta’s $ 1.7 billion bauxite mining project in Kalahandi district. “It is extremely unfortunate that the Central government has rejected environment clearance to the bauxite mining project for Vedanta,” Orissa’s Industries and Steel and Mines Minister Raghuanth Mohanty told reporters. “Having given in-principle environment clearance …

It is ‘no’ to Vedanta’s mine project in Orissa
14 years, 7 months ago

It is ‘no’ to Vedanta’s mine project in Orissa

The Hindu  

After a long drawn-out consultation process, the Union government has finally pronounced its verdict against Vedanta Alumina’s $1.7-billion plan to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa. “There has been a very serious violation of the Environment Protection Act, the Forest Conservation Act and the Forest Rights Act,” said Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh. The Orissa Forest …

Vedanta project: panel blames Orissa officials
14 years, 7 months ago

Vedanta project: panel blames Orissa officials

The Hindu  

The N.C. Saxena panel, which has asked the Centre not to clear Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Orissa, is scathing about the “collusion” of the State and district administrations, blaming them for deliberate non-implementation of the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats Act in the region. “The district administration's reluctance to comply with the legal mandates of the FRA was …

Don't clear Vedanta's mining project: panel
14 years, 7 months ago

Don't clear Vedanta's mining project: panel

The Hindu  

The Union government should not clear Vedanta's bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa as it violates the environment and forest law, according to a panel set up to investigate the proposal. “The Vedanta Company has consistently violated the Forest Conservation Act, the Forest Rights Act, the Environment Protection Act and the Orissa Forest Act in active collusion …

Posco, Vedanta being probed for ‘flouting' norms: Jairam
14 years, 7 months ago

Posco, Vedanta being probed for ‘flouting' norms: Jairam

The Hindu  

While regretting the effectiveness of the regulatory system, Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, told the Rajya Sabha on Monday that corporate majors Vedanta and Posco were being investigated for alleged violation of government guidelines. Mr. Ramesh acknowledged that as far as major minerals were concerned “the honest truth” was that the regulatory system was not effective …

Panel to probe likely displacement by Vedanta project
14 years, 8 months ago

Panel to probe likely displacement by Vedanta project

The Hindu  

The four-member panel, which holds the fate of Vedanta's bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa, has been given an expanded mandate. The committee has now been given the job of investigating the “likely physical and economic displacement due to the project, including the resource displacement of forest users and the rehabilitation plan.” Open-ended course It has also …

More powers to panel probing Vedanta project
14 years, 8 months ago

More powers to panel probing Vedanta project

The Hindu  

Supported by favourable opinion from the Attorney General, the Environment Ministry has given more powers to its panel probing into the impacts and legal issues concerning the Vedanta mining project in Orissa. The Ministry has amended the scope of the work of the four-member panel headed by National Advisory Council member N. C. Saxena, empowering it to “investigate and ascertain …

Forest Ministry free to say ‘no' to Vedanta: AG
14 years, 8 months ago

Forest Ministry free to say ‘no' to Vedanta: AG

The Hindu  

The Attorney-General has given the government a free rein to refuse forest clearance for Vedanta Aluminium's bauxite mining proposal in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa. Forest Conservation Act clearances for diversion of 660 hectares of land have not been granted to Vedanta and its partner, the Orissa Mining Corporation. Vedanta, as well as certain sections within the government, suggested that …

Congress demands white paper on mining activities in Orissa
15 years, 4 months ago

Congress demands white paper on mining activities in Orissa

The Hindu  

Mounting an attack on the BJD government in Orissa, the opposition Congress on Monday demanded a white paper on mining in the state. While the State goverment claims that the government recommended names of 29 mines for prospecting licence, the Ministry of Mines lists at least 63 mines leased in the last nine years,” Leader of opposition Bhupinder Singh said …

No deviations, please
15 years, 7 months ago

No deviations, please

Hindustan Times  

In a potentially revolutionary move, the Ministry of Environment and Forests in July “invited the attention” of states to the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act 2006, and directed that its provisions be adhered to while considering any diversion of forest lands for development projects. In a bid to correct this anomaly, the MoEF has asked that states …

A mining controversy
20 years, 3 months ago

A mining controversy

The Hindu  

Opposition parties allege that a bauxite mining agreement between the Orissa Mining Corporation and a Sterlite Group company violates forest laws and affects the interests of the State. A Sterlite Group company, Vedanta Alumina signed the joint venture agreement with the OMC on October 5 for developing bauxite mines at the Niyamgiri hill near Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district and the …

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