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 […]
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 […]
Anand Bodh, TNN | Sep 6, 2012, 05.59AM IST SHIMLA: Residents of 78 villages of Kullu, Mandi and Shimla districts, who are likely to be affected by the construction of 775 MW Luhri hydroelectric project, are up in arms against the project as they fear that construction of 38-km long twin tunnels passing underneath many […]
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 […]
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, […]