On occasion of the World Environment Day Himdhara, Environment Research and Action Collective and Him Lok Jagriti Manch, a Kinnaur based platform of communities fighting for their natural resources have written to the Chief Minister and the Union Minister of Environment and Forests drawing their attention to the urgent issues in relation tunnels being cosntructed […]
April 2,2013 The government does it purely on the strength of a certificate issued by the district administration Even as the recent affidavit submitted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) before the Supreme Court in the Vedanta case has caused dismay among tribal communities and activists for the dilution of its stand […]
Tribune News Service Shimla, March 20 Asserting that reduction in the capacity of the Luhri hydroelectric project from 775 MW to 600 MW is not a solution to environment-related issues, activists have urged the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to carry out impact assessment afresh in view of change in design. In a letter […]
Himdhara, Environment Research and Action Collective along with the Satluj Bachao Jan Sangharsh Samiti have raised serious issues with the random change in the capacity of the 775 MW Luhri Hydro-electric Project. The Ministry of Environment’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) on River Valley Projects had directed the SJVN to maintain higher environment releases from Luhri […]
Shimla: Greens are upbeat after the Himachal Pradesh High Court handed out what they term “environmental justice” by fining a corporate house Rs.100 crore for violating the law and fraudulently setting up a cement plant and a thermal power plant. Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. (JAL), a subsidiary of the JP Group, was last week slapped the […]
Satluj Bachao jan Sangharsh Samiti, District Mandi organised a peaceful rally today at their tehsil headquarters Karsog today on 28th March 2012. The Sangharsh Samiti submitted a memorandum raising various issues and concerns against the World Bank funded 775 Luhri Hydro-electric Project proposed to be built on the Satluj river, to the President of India, […]