26th October 2015 To The EAC River Valley Projects Ministry of Environment and Forests New Delhi India Subject: Objections regarding three HEPs: 210 MW Purthi Hydro Electric Project, Purthi,TehsilPangi , Distt.-Chamba and 104 MW Lara Sumta HEP and 130 MW Sumte Kothang HEP in District Kinnaur Himachal Pradesh in Satluj basin for ToR Dear Sir, […]
Narratives on Hydropower ‘development’ from Lahaul Valley 5th June 2015 On occasion of the World Environment Day, Himdhara, an Environment Research and Action Collective released a report titled ‘Changing the Colours of Chenab’ on ‘hydropower development’ in the Lahaul Valley. Highlighting local sentiment and probable adverse impacts of the proposed projects in the Chandra-Bhaga or […]
Shimla, April 22 (IANS) Green activists have long protested the hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh that have been gobbling up forests and drying up water channels. Now a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) too backs the claims of the greens. Compensatory afforestation was highly deficient, as 58 percent of the 12 surveyed […]