Category Archives: Ecology and Environment
Air Pollution
The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act was enacted in 1981 and amended in 1987 to provide for the prevention, control and abatement of air pollution in India. Click to view the act
Water Pollution
The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act was enacted in 1974 to provide for the prevention and control of water pollution, and for the maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water in the country. The Act was amended in 1988. Click to view the act
Majority Report Of MOEF Committe A Vindication Of Peoples Just Struggle Against POSCO Project
By Ashok Chowdhury, Dr. Manoranjan Mohanty & Leo F. Saldanha The Majority Report of the 4 member Committee appointed by Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr. Jairam Ramesh to go into all issues relating to the environmental and forest clearances granted to the POSCO project in Orissa, has unequivocally recommended the revocation […]
Violations Of The Forest Rights Act In The POSCO Project Area Referred To The Tribal Ministry
The Forest Advisory Committee , demonstrated yet again that it is more interested in corporate interests than in upholding the law. It decided to refer question of violations of the Forest Rights Act in the POSCO project area to the Tribal Ministry. One should note the following:
Orissa Trips Over Stringent Norms While Clearing Posco Project
The FRA, coupled with a August 2009 order ensuring compliance of the Act by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), disallows the ministry from giving forest clearance to a project before the rights of forest-dwellers have been settled and the gram sabha has given a go-ahead to the acquisition of forestland. In the Posco […]
On Climate Models, The Case For Living With Uncertainty
By Fred Pearce As climate science advances, predictions about the extent of future warming and its effects are likely to become less — not more — precise. That may make it more difficult to convince the public of the reality of climate change, but it hardly diminishes the urgency of taking action.
Growing Conflict Over Arctic Resources And The Threat Of A Climate Catastrophe
By Dr. Peter Custers The Moscow Forum on the Arctic seemed a rather surrealistic event. For the Arctic circle is the very region where the drama of the world’s climate catastrophe threatens being enacted. Two of the natural phenomena which scientists describe when speaking of ‘tipping points‘, of natural changes that in the future will […]
Growing Calls For Moratorium On Climate Geoengineering
By Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan — Delegates to the world summit on biodiversity here are calling for a moratorium on climate engineering research, like the idea of putting huge mirrors in outer space to reflect some of the sun’s heating rays away from the planet.
Mine Is The Power
The mining business, legal and illegal, is dictating politics across the country. In Haryana, the mining racket in the Aravallis is believed to have resulted in the powerful section of the Congress camp upstaging its rivals in the in-house power stakes. In Madhya Pradesh, quarrying has helped people across party lines make fortunes to finance […]
Realising Low Carbon Infrastructure Dream
India would need major policy and regulatory changes including standards, taxation of pollution and tailored incentives to ensure infrastructure development follows a low carbon route. These are among the many proposals put forward in the India Infrastructure Report (IIR) 2010, released by Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IDFC) on October 20, in New Delhi.