QUEENSLAND (AUSTRALIA): If you never quite believed government data showing an increase in the country's forest cover, here's research to back your scepticism. While the government claims nearly 5% increase in forest cover from 1997 to 2007, three scientists, two from India and one from Australia, have shown decline in India's natural forest cover by 1.5%-2.7% per year. The government claim is presented in the Forest Survey of India's biennial Status...
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MoEF to take action against Bhopal private medical college by Mahim Pratap Singh
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has decided to take action against Chirayu Medical College and Hospital, a private medical college in Madhya Pradesh set up inside the catchment area of the historic Upper Lake of Bhopal. In a letter to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan last month, a copy of which is withThe Hindu, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh informed Mr. Chauhan that since the project had violated...
More »Supreme Court allows mining by Lafarge by J Venkatesan
Forest Bench issues guidelines for future clearances The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the French cement company Lafarge to mine limestone in the forests of the East Khasi hills in Meghalaya. The Forest Bench, comprising Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and K.S. Radhakrishnan, accepted the contentions of the Lafarge to mine in the forests of Meghalaya and that it had obtained necessary clearances. Writing the judgment, the CJI said: “In...
More »POSCO: take land but give life by Sunita Narain
The sight on television was heartbreaking: children lying in rows in the searing sun to be human shields against the takeover of their land for Korean giant POSCO’s mega bucks project. Facing them were armed police sent by the state government to assist in the operation. The steel plant and port project, located in a coastal district of Odisha, has been in a six-year-long eyeball-to-eyeball battle with people whose land will...
More »'Only MoEF can take a final call on Vedanta mining rights in Niyamgiri hills'
-The Times of India The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has said it alone can take the final call on whether Vedanta can mine bauxite deposits in the Niyamgiri hills, asserting that it has the power to turn down the recommendation of the ministry's statutory Environment Appraisal Committee (EAC). Reacting to the report in TOI on Saturday about the EAC's go-ahead to Vedanta to start mining the bauxite deposit...
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