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Centre considers delinking oil, gas extraction from mining tag -Jayashree Nandi

-Hindustan Times

The MoPNG is seeking a separate category of clearance for oil and gas because if it is considered a mining activity, the environmental norms may prove to be more stringent, an official in the ministry said.

The Union environment ministry is considering a proposal to delink oil and gas extraction from mining projects, as far as environmental appraisal is concerned, people familiar with the matter said.

If approved, oil and gas extraction will not be considered a mining activity anymore.

According to the people cited above, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas (MoPNG) has requested the environment ministry to create a separate category for appraisal of oil and gas projects on their Parivesh portal, where various environmental clearances are processed.

The minutes of a Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) meeting on March 31 said while the panel has deferred its decision on the matter, it maintained that extraction of natural gas and petroleum is not mining as per interpretation of a 2006 Supreme Court order.

HT has seen a copy of the minutes of the FAC meeting.

In a request to the environment ministry on January 31, the MoPNG director general had asked the Union government to create a separate category for hydrocarbon projects which are currently applied under the mining category.

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