Tribune News Service Shimla, January 23 In 70°C temperature and a thick layer of carbon sprayed all over the power house, the team of engineers of HP State Electricity Board Ltd (HPSEBL) today failed to inspect the multi-crore switch yard of the underground power house of 120 mw Sanjay Jalvidyut Pariyojna (SJP). The five-member team […]
Tribune News Service Shimla, January 23 Seeking intervention of the state government to ensure that there is no law and order problem arising out of the workers’ strike at the Karcham-Wangtoo and Baspa projects, Manoj Gaur, Executive Chairman of Jaypee Group, met CM Virbhadra Singh today. Even as the conciliation meetings held in the recent […]
पालमपुर के नजदीक स्पेडू गांव में बन रहे 4.5 मेगावाट के आवा प्रोजेक्ट के प्रभावितों ने आज प्रोजेक्ट के पावर हाउस साइट में जमा हो कर कम्पनी को उनके मध्य हुये करारनामे की शर्तें न निभाने के चलते चेतावनी दी। ब्यास की सहायक नदी आवा खड्ड पर इस परियोजना को सुभाष प्रोजेक्ट्स द्वारा बनाया जा […]
On 8th and 9th December 2014, the Directorate of Energy organised Public Consultations in Rekong Peo and Pooh (Kinnaur District) on the Cumulative Environment Impact Assessment Study conducted for the Satluj River Basin. The study, which had the mandate to assess the over all cumulative impacts of the ongoing and proposed hydropower development in the […]
The Himdhara Team put together a photo exhibition for the India River’s Week 2014 titled ‘Disappearing Lifelines of India’s Hydro State’. The exhibition highlights the impacts of operations, under-construction and planned Hydro projects in the five river basins of Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh is India’s largest hydropower producing state and has a planned potential of […]
In a half day program organised today in Shimla by environmental groups Himdhara Collective and LIFE (Legal Initiative for Environment and Forests, environmentalists including lawyers, activists and concerned citizens of Shimla deliberated on the role of the National Green Tribunal in the context of Himachal’s environment issues. Supreme Court Lawyer Rahul Chaudhary and High Court […]
A TALK ON National Green Tribunal and Environmental Justice: Current discourses Speaker: Rahul Chaudhary, Legal Initiative for Forests and Environment For the last four decades, since India embarked on a journey of industrial development and then faster economic growth, the environmental issues facing the country have become graver. A complex environmental governance system with a […]
Himdhara made a detailed submission on the critique of the Cumulative Impact Assessment report of Satluj Basin conducted by ICFRE. The study was conducted for the Himachal government after the Ministry of Environment , Forest and Climate Change urged it to assess the cumulative impacts of hydro power projects on all the river basins of […]
Allege that the changes are anti-people and environment About 15 environmental groups, concerned citizens and activists from Himachal Pradesh over the last few days have sent a series of submissions to the Chief Minister and Chief Secretary, Himachal Pradesh raising strong objections to the amendments in the Hydro power Policy made by the State Government […]
हिमाचल प्रदेश सरकार ने पर्यावरण व वन मंत्रालय के निर्देश पर 2013-2014 में जल विद्युत परियोजनाओं के प्रभावों का आंकलन करने के लिये भारतीय वानिकी अनुसंधान एवं शिक्षा परिषद् (ICFRE),देहरादून को नियुक्त किया। हिमाचल प्रदेश में सबसे पहले सतलुज घाटी का सामुहिक पर्यावरण प्रभाव आंकलन किया गया। आंकलन के अंतिम प्रक्रिया के दौरान किन्नौर व […]