The Chhattisgarh High Court has directed that no further action be taken towards granting environmental clearance to a coal mine operated by DB Power Ltd, a subsidiary of DB Corp, one of India's largest media corporations. The respondents have been given three weeks to reply. A writ petition filed in the court accuses the company of adopting “deliberate, illegal and manipulative” measures to influence the outcome of a public hearing held...

-The Hindu   The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Sunday slammed the report of the Government-appointed expert committee on Kudankulam as being extremely flawed, premised on obsolete demographic data and opaque on the risks from sub-volcanic activity near the site or health impact on the local population. The PMANE also released a letter to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa seeking her intervention in scrapping the project. In the letter to the Chief Minister–copies of...

Some of the developing world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters are bidding to delay talks on a new climate agreement. To the anger of small islands and other vulnerable countries, India and Brazil are joining rich nations such as the US and Japan in wanting to start talks on a legal deal no earlier than 2015. The EU and climate-vulnerable blocs want to start as soon as possible, and have the deal finalised...

-The Hindustan Times   The stalemate over the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu continued after protesters on Friday rejected the safety certificate issued by the central panel of experts after a three-day plant inspection. There were widespread protests against the two 1,000 MW nuclear power reactors that the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd is building with Russian technology and equipment in Kudankulam, around 650 km from Chennai. Villagers...

An independent study says some 250 thermal power projects that have got clearances may be meant just to grab land and water resources. THERE have been a growing number of headlines that speak of an energy crisis and the energy deficit in India in the last few years. The disparities in the demand-supply scenario, the increasing prospects of disruptions in the global supply of fuel and the consequent results of higher...