SHIMLA: Published on Jan 22, 2014 Having resorted to protest demonstration and agitation to save the fragile ecology of Himalayas from the destruction caused by slew of developmental projects in the Himalayan region, now green activists have started a unique programme with the sole objective of creating an army of youth fighting to save Himalayas from destruction. Recently […]
SHIMLA: Environmentalists denounce the process as an ill-timed eyewash; Force Government to conduct Consultations at Tehsil levelA public consultation on the Cumulative Environment Impact study of the Satluj river basin conducted today at Jhakhri today saw uproarious scenes with the project affected people of the Satluj valley and environmental organisations vehemently protesting against the conduct […]
Shimla Published on Saturday, 26 October 2013 Environment activists have asked the state government to declare Kinnaur a disaster affected area in view of the destruction caused by heavy rains and snow during the month of June this year. Appalled by the government apathy towards reckless and unplanned development in the tribal district, the […]
DP Correspondent Shimla ‘Green groups’ in Himachal have demanded a moratorium on construction of all new hydro-power projects on the Satluj and Chenab in the state, till a study on cumulative impact of all the projects on fragile ecology is done. Raising this issue in the wake of disaster that stuck Uttarakhand and Kinnaur, six […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Solan, March 30 The state government today sought a report from the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) regarding discrepancies in furnishing information relating to hazardous waste under the RTI Act to the NGO Himparivesh. This action followed publication of the report ‘Industries fail to send waste to treatment plant: RTI’ in these columns on March […]
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 […]