SHIMLA: Green activists in Himachal Pradesh have strongly opposed the union environment ministry’s decision to wave off approval from the locals for diverting forests to projects under the Forest Conservation Act. In a missive to minister of environment and forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan Saturday, the activists have objected to the ministry’s “unilateral” decision, saying the […]
Satluj Bachao Jan Sangharsh Samiti: ‘No NOC taken by SJVNL under provisions of the Forest Rights Act 2006” ; ‘Strongly oppose the tunnel based project’ The World Bank funded 775 MW Luhri Hydroelectric project on the Satluj river has run into further local opposition in the area as people from three affected Panchayats put a […]
26th April 2012 The Ministry of Environment and Forest’s (MoEF) committee that examines and recommends the proposals for forest clearance under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 has in its meeting dated 2nd April 2012 clarified that no stage 1 Forest Clearance would be accorded to any project until the documentary evidence related to process of […]