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2 weeks, 2 days ago

OSPCB to realise Rs 71 crore penalty on Vedanta for dumping fly ash

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha State Pollution Control Board is set to take steps to realise the Rs 71 crore penalty imposed on Vedanta Limited for illegally dumping fly ash at different places in Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundargarh. A senior OSPCB officer on Friday said, the penalty was imposed after it was established that the company was dumping fly ash in violation of …

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Congress MLA demands action against Vedanta for illegal fly ash dumping in Odisha

New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: Congress MLA from Rajgangpur CS Raazen Ekka on Thursday demanded in the Assembly that action should be taken against Vedanta Limited for violating the consent to operate given to its captive and thermal power plants at Sripura village in Jharsuguda by illegally dumping fly ash at various places in Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundargarh districts without the approval of Odisha …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Kadapa: BJP-TD leaders fight over fly ash transportation from Rayalaseema thermal plant

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: A tense situation prevails in the border region of Anantapur-Kadapa districts over the transportation of fly ash from the Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant at Jammalamadugu in Kadapa. Reports said the Tadipathri municipal chairman JC Prabhakar Reddy planned to visit the plant on Wednesday after MLA Adinarayana Reddy’s group waylaid Tadipathri vehicles from collecting fly ash from the plant. Prabhakar …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

GST Rate On Bricks With Less Than 90% Fly Ash Content To Be Charged At 5% Instead Of 18%

Live Law

The Gujarat High Court has ruled that fly ash bricks and blocks with less than 90% fly ash content can be charged at a 5% GST rate instead of the 18% rate previously applicable. The court based its decision on a 2009 Ministry of Environment and Forest notification and a 2018 circular from the GST Council.

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4 months ago

Call for focus on fly ash brick industry

The Hindu

Despite Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman expressing concern over growing carbon emissions and the measures being taken to promote eco-friendly energy sources in her recent budget speech, the Central government seems to have failed to pay attention to the fly ash brick industry which has 454 times greater potential in reducing carbon footprint. Meanwhile, a fly ash brick industry with an …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Vedanta Group slapped with environmental fine of ₹71.16 crore for unauthorised dumping of fly ash in Odisha

The Hindu

The Odisha State Pollution Control Board has imposed environmental compensation of ₹71.16 crore on Vedanta Limited, which is operating a aluminium smelter and captive power plant in Jharsuguda district, for alleged unauthorised dumping of fly ash without its prior permission. It was established that your unit is disposing fly ash at various places of Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundargarh region without …

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6 months ago

Fly Ash Issue: Legal Notice Issued to BRS MLA Koushik Reddy

Deccan Chronicle

Karimnagar: Advocate Etooru Poornachander Rao issued defamation notices to Huzurabad MLA Padi Koushik Reddy, T-New channel MD Joginpally Santosh Kumar, Namasthe Telangana newspaper chief editor Tigulla Krishnamurthy and Telangana Publications Private Limited for making baseless allegation against transport and backward classes welfare minister Ponnam Prabhakar. Addressing a press conference at the Telangana Bhavan 10 days back, Koushik Reddy had alleged …

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6 months, 1 week ago

OERC directs Vedanta to furnish data on fly ash cost

New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission has directed Vedanta Limited to furnish relevant documents along with its monthly claim of fly ash transportation charges to the commission for reimbursement by the Grid Corporation of Odisha Limited. Disposing of a petition filed by Vedanta claiming reimbursement of Rs 8.31 crore from GRIDCO, the bulk power purchase from one unit of Vedanta’s …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Kaushik links Ponnam to alleged NTPC fly ash transportation scam

New Indian Express

HYDERABAD : Like TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the BRS leaders too are now talking about maintaining a Red Book. Pink party MLA from Huzurabad Padi Kaushik Reddy revealed this while levelling serious allegations against Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar’s son Anup, claiming that the latter was involved in illegal transportation of NTPC fly ash. Speaking …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Amid rising mercury, green constructions gain traction

Hindustan Times

Construction work in India is back in full swing after a brief lull due to the pandemic, with building sector set to become the world’s third largest — the sectors only in US, China and Japan are larger at present — and with most of the housing stock required for 2030 yet to be built. Vaibhav Rathi, a climate change …

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10 months ago

Simhadri to Complete Pollution Control Device by year End

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: Simhadri super thermal power station of NTPC at Parawada in Anakapalle district will complete the installation of flue gas desulphurisation system, which are air pollution control devices for sulphur dioxide emissions, by this year end.The 2,000 MW Simhadri super thermal power station of NTPC has been achieving the cent per cent fly ash utilization with the support of National …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Ennore’s continuing protest against electricity towers, debris, fly ash in their creek

The Hindu

“They said what do fishermen know? Towers, a problem According to Tantransco, as part of the Ennore Thermal Power Station Expansion Project, in the first route, there were no towers erected in the waterbody. In the fourth route, which is from North Chennai Thermal Power Station III to NC Pooling Station, there are seven towers, of which four fall in …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Toxic acids from China-funded Norochcholai coal power plant could affect Maha Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka: Report

Op India

Recent reports have emerged indicating that toxic acids, which evaporated from the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant, may pose a threat to the Sri Maha Bodhi tree, the oldest living tree in the world with a written history, Colombo Gazette reported. The Norochcholai Power Plant in Sri Lanka’s Northwestern province is about an hour away from the Sri Mahabodhi tree at …

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1 year, 9 months ago

After Fly Ash, Waste Plastic & Phosphor-Gypsum, Steel Slag Being Tested To Build National Highways

News 18

Going ahead with the Union government’s ‘Waste to Wealth’ mission and marching towards environmentally sustainable national highways construction, the NHAI is testing the use of steel slag, a by-product of steel making, in road construction. This initiative by National Highways Authority of India comes days after it announced that it is testing the use of phosphor-gypsum, a by-product of fertilizer …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Ground Zero | Breathing the toxic air of Chandrapur

The Hindu

Every day, when 10-year-old Madhav Mundhada comes back from school tired, he takes at least 45 minutes to finish his meal. Watch | The Smokestacks Of Chandrapur The CSTPS plant alone releases 7,100 metric tonnes — almost the weight of 18 jumbo jets — of fly ash, a fine particulate by-product of coal combustion that is known to be carcinogenic. …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Patna High Court Shuts 49 Brick Kilns Over Failure To Shift To 'Cleaner Technology'

Live Law

The Patna High Court on Saturday directed the government to close 49 brick kilns that failed to shift to cleaner technology and produce fly ash bricks, despite a cut-off date set by the Bihar State Pollution Control Board.The Board had issued a Notification in December 2018 by which all brick kilns were asked to switch to cleaner technology by September …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Give us 30 per cent of dry fly ash generated from Thoothukudi power station : Brick manufacturers

New Indian Express

THOOTHUKUDI: Tamil Nadu Fly Ash Bricks and Blocks Manufacturers Association has urged the State government to allot 30% of the dry fly ash generated from Thoothukudi Thermal Power Station to manufacturers free of cost as against the former allotment of 20%. Founder-president of the association DS Saravanan said the TTPS had not renewed allotment orders for as many as 120 …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Fly ash from power stations in Bihar wreaks havoc on human health, crops: Study

Hindustan Times

PATNA: Villagers and farmers residing around Kahalgaon super power thermal station are reeling under the constant fear of damage to their health and standing crops owing to improper management of fly ash generated in the course of production of electricity, according to a joint study by two non-profit organisations. District agriculture officer, Bhagalpur, Sanjay Kumar said that the district administration …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Determine penalty on thermal plants for not utilising fly ash causing pollution: NGT

The Hindu

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board to determine the amount of compensation to be levied on thermal power plants that are not utilising the fly ash causing pollution. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel observed, “Non-utilisation and improper disposal of fly ash leads to increase in air pollution and causes severe …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Fly ash from power station leaks into Ennore creek

The Hindu

In yet another instance of fly ash leaking from the North Chennai Thermal Power Station at Ennore, the video of a pipeline dumping large amounts of fly ash into Kosasthalaiyar river was revealed on social media on Monday. On the other hand, these types of leaks continue,” he said Mr. Jayaraman said the fly ash spill on Monday was directly …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Singrauli Pollution: SC Issues Notice On Plea Against Non-Compliance Of NGT Directions; Plea Also Seeks Court Monitored Committee For Oversight [Read Order]

Live Law

The Supreme Court today admitted an appeal against an NGT order, disposing the execution petition filed for implementation of measures to restore environmental conditions in Singrauli and Sonebhadra districts of MP and UP respectively, allegedly despite non-compliance of its original directions. The Court was hearing a plea filed by Advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, alleging that despite non-compliance of directions issued …

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4 years, 4 months ago

NTPC develops infrastructure at Rihand project for increased use of fly ash

Live Mint

To transport fly ash to cement plants located at distance, NTPC Limited has developed infrastructure at Rihand project in Uttar Pradesh, informed the central public sector unit on Sunday. "The development is in line with NTPC's commitment towards 100 per cent utilisation of fly ash from power plants," said NTPC in a release. As per a statement issued by the …

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OSPCB to realise Rs 71 crore penalty on Vedanta for dumping fly ash

Congress MLA demands action against Vedanta for illegal fly ash dumping in Odisha

Kadapa: BJP-TD leaders fight over fly ash transportation from Rayalaseema thermal plant

GST Rate On Bricks With Less Than 90% Fly Ash Content To Be Charged At 5% Instead Of 18%

Call for focus on fly ash brick industry

Vedanta Group slapped with environmental fine of ₹71.16 crore for unauthorised dumping of fly ash in Odisha

Fly Ash Issue: Legal Notice Issued to BRS MLA Koushik Reddy

OERC directs Vedanta to furnish data on fly ash cost

Kaushik links Ponnam to alleged NTPC fly ash transportation scam

Amid rising mercury, green constructions gain traction

Simhadri to Complete Pollution Control Device by year End

Ennore’s continuing protest against electricity towers, debris, fly ash in their creek

Toxic acids from China-funded Norochcholai coal power plant could affect Maha Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka: Report

After Fly Ash, Waste Plastic & Phosphor-Gypsum, Steel Slag Being Tested To Build National Highways

Ground Zero | Breathing the toxic air of Chandrapur

Patna High Court Shuts 49 Brick Kilns Over Failure To Shift To 'Cleaner Technology'

Give us 30 per cent of dry fly ash generated from Thoothukudi power station : Brick manufacturers

Fly ash from power stations in Bihar wreaks havoc on human health, crops: Study

Determine penalty on thermal plants for not utilising fly ash causing pollution: NGT

Fly ash from power station leaks into Ennore creek

Singrauli Pollution: SC Issues Notice On Plea Against Non-Compliance Of NGT Directions; Plea Also Seeks Court Monitored Committee For Oversight [Read Order]

NTPC develops infrastructure at Rihand project for increased use of fly ash