Hasdeo Forest | Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Cancellation Of Mining Permission For PEKB, Parsa Coal Blocks In Chhattisgarh
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Hasdeo Forest | Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Cancellation Of Mining Permission For PEKB, Parsa Coal Blocks In Chhattisgarh

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The Supreme Court yesterday issued notice on a public interest litigation seeking a direction to the Union of India to cancel all non-forest use and mining permissions granted for PEKB and Parsa Coal Block, Chhattisgarh.The PIL further seeks a direction to the State of Chhattisgarh to notify entire Hasdeo Aranya Forest and Parsa Coal Block, Chhattisgarh. The petitioner, claiming to be a Chhattisgarh-based advocate and activist, has challenged Environmental Clearance granted to project proponent-Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd for PEKB Coal Block dated 10.08.2018, Chhattisgarh government's order dated 25.03.2022 granting permission of non-forest use and mining in Phase II Area Forest Land of 1136 Hect of PEKB, and Environment Ministry order dated 02.02.2022 allowing RRVUNL and MDO PKCL to mine in Phase II Area of the PEKB Block. It is stated that pursuant to an appeal filed by him, forest clearance granted to the PEKB Coal Block and Minister's order dated 23.06.2011 were quashed by the NGT on 24.03.2014. Statedly, in December, 2022, the NGT also dismissed the petitioner's appeals challenging environmental clearance granted to PEKB and Parsa Coal Block, which were earlier adjourned sine-die, without hearing them on merit.

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Deforestation drive in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo starts again for PEKB phase 2 mining
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Deforestation drive in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo starts again for PEKB phase 2 mining

Hindustan Times  

Raipur: The deforestation drive in Chhattisgarh’s Pendramar forest started on Friday for the second phase of the Parsa East Kente Basan mining project, even as locals and tribals protested, activists said, adding that around 250,000 trees are likely to be felled over 1,136 hectares of the Hasdeo Aranya forest region. Out of which around 134 hectares of forest land had …

‘The Hasdeo movement is a model of resistance’: Alok Shukla
10 months, 3 weeks ago

‘The Hasdeo movement is a model of resistance’: Alok Shukla

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 30, 2024 13:48 IST - 6 MINS READ Alok Shukla, an activist who has campaigned for years to protect the heart of Chhattisgarh’s biodiverse Hasdeo forests, was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in April. His “Save Hasdeo Aranya Resistance Committee”, which mobilised Adivasi communities from across the State, has saved 4,45,000 acres of forests from no …

Protests in Hasdeo Aranya | 10 years with a coal mine for a backyard
1 year, 11 months ago

Protests in Hasdeo Aranya | 10 years with a coal mine for a backyard

The Hindu  

In Chhattisgarh’s harsh dry summer of 2016, Mohar Sai, who has lived all his 43 years in Hariharpur village in Salhi panchayat of Surguja district, received an offer from “the company”. “The company” is Adani Enterprises Limited, which has been mining over the past decade in Parsa East and Kente Basan coal blocks, quite literally, in Mr. Sai’s backyard. Coal …

Chhattisgarh: Tree cutting for coal mining starts in Hasdeo amid protests
2 years, 5 months ago

Chhattisgarh: Tree cutting for coal mining starts in Hasdeo amid protests

Hindustan Times  

RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh’s forest department on Monday started felling trees for the second phase of Parsa East Kente Basan coal mine project amid continuing protests by activists and villagers against clearance to coal mines in the state’s biodiversity-rich Hasdeo Arand region. Surguja Collector Kundan Kumar said that the forest department started felling trees in Pendramar-Ghatbarra forest on Tuesday morning for phase …

No coal mining in Parsa and Kete Extension, says Chhattisgarh Minister
2 years, 5 months ago

No coal mining in Parsa and Kete Extension, says Chhattisgarh Minister

The Hindu  

Chhattisgarh Health Minister T.S. Singh Deo on Friday said Parsa and Kete Extension — two new coal blocks in the Hasdeo Aranya region — would not be opened for mining and that Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had given his consent for the same. In July this year, the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly had unanimously passed a private member resolution urging the …

Judicial survey of coal mining site in Assam elephant reserve ordered
2 years, 6 months ago

Judicial survey of coal mining site in Assam elephant reserve ordered

The Hindu  

The Gauhati High Court has ordered a judicial survey of an area near an eastern Assam national park where a unit of Coal India Limited is said to be carrying out mining operations in violation of environmental laws. Chhaya and Justice Soumitra Saikia directed the Tinsukia district judge to study the Tikok Extension open cast project close to the Dehing …

SC Irked Over Mining Activities Continuing Without Forest Clearance in Odisha
2 years, 9 months ago

SC Irked Over Mining Activities Continuing Without Forest Clearance in Odisha

News 18  

The Supreme Court on Monday took strong note of continuing illegal mining of minerals by some firms in Odisha without obtaining forest clearance from authorities under the garb of status quo orders, and asked the state high court to dispose of such matters in six months. The top court was irked over the fact that the mining companies, which have …

Centre permits mining in Hasdeo Arand area in Chhattisgarh
3 years, 2 months ago

Centre permits mining in Hasdeo Arand area in Chhattisgarh

Hindustan Times  

Despite protests by local residents, the environment ministry has permitted further coal mining in 1,136 hectares of land in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand, one of the last remaining old growth forests in the country. The forest advisory committee of the ministry on December 23 approved a proposal to extend mining in the Parsa East and Kente Basan block owned by the …

Supreme Court stays felling of 11,000 tress on Doon Expressway till November 26
3 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court stays felling of 11,000 tress on Doon Expressway till November 26

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed felling of around 11,000 trees and plants on the Ganeshpur-Dehradun Road stretch, part of the Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor until November 26 and also asked National Green Tribunal to decide the plea against forest clearances granted to the Expressway. Supreme Court of India A Bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant, and Vikram Nath set …

C’garh to hold public hearings on mining in coal block with 98% forest cover
3 years, 9 months ago

C’garh to hold public hearings on mining in coal block with 98% forest cover

Hindustan Times  

The Chhattisgarh government will hold public hearings in July in villages around the Kente Extension coal block as part of the process to grant environmental clearance to mining in the forested and biodiversity-rich Hasdeo Arand region, people aware of the matter said. “We are following the TOR of the concerned ministry, and we are bound to do it.” On the …

Supreme Court Issues Notice To Centre, States On Plea Against Mining in Densely-Forested, Eco-Sensitive Areas
4 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court Issues Notice To Centre, States On Plea Against Mining in Densely-Forested, Eco-Sensitive Areas

Live Law  

The petition by was heard by a bench led by the Chief Justice S. A. Bobde by Sudeip Shrivastava through advocate Prashant Bhushan. The plea challenges the Union of India's decision to allot different coal blocks by way of auction and allotment, situated in densely forested areas of the different states whereas less forested coal blocks are available in abundance. …

‘Submit report on illegal construction in Aravalis’
5 years, 7 months ago

‘Submit report on illegal construction in Aravalis’

The Hindu  

Following a plea alleging illegal construction in the Aravalis in Gurugram for the construction of a police training centre, the National Green Tribunal has directed the Haryana Chief Secretary to furnish an action-taken report within one month. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel took note of a report dated May 23, submitted by Haryana Principal Chief …

PIL in Orissa Illegal Mining ; the 'Forest Bench' of SC Suspends mining operations as an Interim Measure [Read Judgment]
10 years, 10 months ago

PIL in Orissa Illegal Mining ; the 'Forest Bench' of SC Suspends mining operations as an Interim Measure [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

After passing orders in illegal mining operations in the State of Karnataka and Goa, the ' Forest Bench' of the Supreme Court has suspended the mining operations in Orissa. When the writ petition was heard on on 21.04.2014, the Court prima facie found that that several mining lessees were operating without clearances under the Environment Act, 1986 and the Forest …

Green tribunal cancels forest clearance for Chhattisgarh coal blocks
10 years, 11 months ago

Green tribunal cancels forest clearance for Chhattisgarh coal blocks

The Hindu  

The National Green Tribunal has cancelled the clearance given by the environment minister to Parsa East and Kante-Basan captive coal blocks in Hasdeo Arand forests of Chhattisgarh, overruling the statutory Forest Advisory Committee. The forest clearance was given by the then Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh in June 2011, overriding the advice of the ministry's expert panel on …

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 …

Pvt sector's furtive entry into mining in tribal areas irks Deo
11 years, 7 months ago

Pvt sector's furtive entry into mining in tribal areas irks Deo

The Hindu  

Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has criticised the Union and State governments for disinvesting in public sector companies to permit private entities to mine in tribal-dominated Schedule V areas, calling the move unconstitutional. In a letter to Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan, Mr. Deo said, “Circumventing the constitutional provisions through disinvestment is being done in a stealthy manner …

SC Hearing On Niyamgiri Vedanta Project Posted To January
13 years, 6 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 …

Jairam loses “no-go” battle, allows coal mining in forested Hasdeo Arand
13 years, 8 months ago

Jairam loses “no-go” battle, allows coal mining in forested Hasdeo Arand

The Hindu  

The bastion of Hasdeo-Arand has finally been broken. One year after saying that the coalfields of this heavily-forested, mineral rich region of Chhattisgarh would never be open to miners, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has finally granted a stage-I forest clearance to three blocks in the region: Tara, Parsa East and Kante Basan. “Yes, these are the first Hasdeo-Arand blocks to …

Environment Ministry nod to three coal blocks in Chhattisgarh
13 years, 8 months ago

Environment Ministry nod to three coal blocks in Chhattisgarh

The Hindu  

Rejecting the recommendations of the Forest Advisory Committee, Environment Ministry on Thursday gave its approval to open up Tara, Parsa East and Kante Basan coal blocks in the Hasdeo-Arand forest region of Chhattisgarh. In an order, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said he “disagrees with the final recommendations” of the FAC, which advised him to reject the proposals made by the …

Orissa moves SC against denial of green nod to Vedanta
13 years, 11 months 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 …

It is ‘no’ to Vedanta’s mine project in Orissa
14 years, 6 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 …

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 …

Forest Ministry free to say ‘no' to Vedanta: AG
14 years, 7 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 …

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