Govt assures a new CZMP with people’s views
Plan to be drafted by Environment Department in consultation with CZMA, GSPCB, scientists PORVORIM: In a major victory to the people, the State government on Tuesday announced it woud draft a fresh
Herald (Panjim)
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Ganesh Gaonkar asks Centre to accept State’s stand on buffer zones
PANJIM: BJP MLA from the mining belt Ganesh Gaonkar has written to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests calling upon it to accept the recommendations of the State government in totality, subject
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Pathway in CRZ at Anjuna removed
TIVIM: Acting on orders of National Green Tribunal (NGT), the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) on Wednesday evening began the process to remove a pathway constructed by GTDC at Vagator beach
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The Goa govt told SC that all mining was ‘illegal’
As the different layers of the Supreme Court judgment on Goa mining are getting pealed like onion skins, each page in the operative part of the judgment is leaving mining players teary eyed. Even as the future, whenever the future happens, of mining looks to be controlled, limited and organized, the mining industry is still battling to figure if the state of Goa was with them or against them during its long struggle in the Supreme Court.
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Margao’s bio-medical waste problem remains on backburner
MARGAO: When the Margao Municipality inked an agreement with Fomento on February 1, 2011 to set up a waste treatment plant at Sonsodo, the two sides had agreed to earmark land admeasuring 200 sq mts for
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No giving back mining leases to violators: Goa Foundation
While Goa government is planning to resume mining by September by renewing the existing leases in a phased manner, which were declared as illegal by the Supreme Court, since they were renewed under the
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Pollution board warns AAI of legal action
After sufficient forewarning, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has raised the red flag, issuing directions to the Airport Authority of India Tuesday for operating the Dabolim airport terminal without the consent to operate under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974 and Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981 and for dumping untreated sewage and waste water in the open “thereby causing pollution.” v>The show case notice is returnable within seven days from the date of receipt of the directions.
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Malaria cases down, dengue on rise in Bardez
As the world celebrates Malaria Day Friday, health officials have claimed that sustained efforts have brought down malaria cases in Bardez, but admit that unplanned urbanization has led to a spurt in dengue
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K’taka farmers plan agitation
BELGAUM: Agitated over the recent Mhadei Water Disputes Tribunal’s (MWDT) ruling asking Karnataka to stop the flow of water to Malaprabha at Kankumbi, farmers in north Karnataka have planned a series of
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After SC order, Goa has just 1 valid mining lease
PANJIM: With Supreme Court terming all the mining leases operational in Goa under deemed provision after 2007 as “illegal”, the State is now left with only one valid mining lease renewed during the former
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Greens, mining belt MLAs cautiously welcome SC verdict
Environmental activists have cautiously welcomed, the Supreme Court verdict which conditionally lifts the ban on mining saying that the judgment has vindicated several of their contentions, which they