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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Activists want 3 km buffer zone
PANJIM: Manohar Parrikar-led Government’s decision to have one km buffer zone around wildlife sanctuaries and the national park, has been denounced by environmentalists and concerned citizens who alleged that the “Government is trying to protect the interest of mining lobby”. The environmentalists recommend that the buffer zone should not be less than three kms for the State. Cabinet Minister in the BJP-led Government Alina Saldanha had also expressed her unhappiness over the one km buffer zone and had said that the zone should be two kms.
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Navelim locals want legal mines to restart
MAYEM: Residents of Navelim on Sunday demanded with the State government to restart legal mines in the State. The residents made the demand at the Navelim Gram Sabha, which was specially called by the panchayat to discuss the crisis faced by truck owners and others dependent on mining. Most of the speakers at the gram sabha raised different problems faced by the mining related components like truck owners, garage owners, spare part shop owners, businessmen engaged in tyres and tube selling, truck drivers, cleaners and others dependent on mining.
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Dabolim airport panchayats in garbage mess
VASCO: With the October 31 deadline set by South Goa Collector to clear garbage within 10 kms of Dabolim airport to prevent bird-hits fast approaching, four South Goa panchayats on Friday requested Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) to pick up their garbage till they make alternate arrangements. At a meeting, the sarpanchas and panchas of Chicalim, Bogmalo-Chicolna, Sancoale and Velsao-Pale Panchayats requested MMC to consider their proposal.
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Top 16 companies issued notices over pollution
PANJIM: Goa’s 16 major private and public sector companies in the field of power generation, steel production, liquor, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals were issued show cause notices on Thursday by Goa State Pollution Control Board for failing to install online stack emission, effluent and ambient air quality monitoring system. GSPCB Member Secretary Levinson Martin who issued the notices, has asked the companies to reply within 15 days, failing which action would be taken to close the units. The Board has said that in letters dated April 21, 2011, August 8, 2011 and January 10, 2012 the companies were directed to take immediate measures for installation of the system by June 2012, but they failed to act.
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Parrikar’s all-party meet on mining exposes his duplicity: Vijai
MARGAO: Independent MLA Vijai Sardessai on Thursday said that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s all-party meet formula exposes government’s duplicity to resolve the mining impasse. He blamed the government and the BJP MLAs for instigating the people of the mining areas and mining dependents against the opposition. “Parrikar’s decision to convene an all party meeting appears a climb down from his confrontationist attitude and his super inflated ego. But, the utterances by BJP MLAs blaming me and Reginaldo Lourenco for the halt in mining, exposes the duplicity of the ruling party and government,” he said.
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Pollution Board wants to shift coal from MPT to avoid fire
PANJIM: Goa State Pollution Control Board is thinking of shifting the coal cargo which is lying at Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) to avoid the possibility of a fire since it lies close to Indian Oil Corporation's tanks. A meeting of MPT officials has been called on Friday to discuss the issue. The meeting would be attended by Mormugao Port workers union and Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Limited (KFIL), one of the Mormugao Port users, whose 15,829.33 million tonne met coke is lying at berth number 11, at which the consent to operate stands suspended.
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Nationalise mining, demands CPI-M
PANJIM: Communist Party of India (Marxist) organised a workers rally from Panjim Kadamba Bus Terminus which culminated in a public meeting at Azad Maidan, to press for their demand to nationalise mining in the State and its takeover by proposed Goa Mineral Development Corporation. The rally was addressed by Tapan Sen General Secretary of the National Unit of the CPI-M and Member of Parliament Tapan Sen as well as Thalmann Pereira, the state general secretary, Dr Vivek Monteiro and others. The rally submitted a memorandum of their demands to Collector, North Goa.
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Shetgavkar in panel formed to ‘help’ CEC on illegal mining
PANJIM: At least one official of Department of Mines and Geology who figured in Justice Shah Commission report on illegal mining is on the two sub-committees formed by the department to “help” the Central
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Mining scam a wake-up call for Goa: Church
PANJIM: The Church in Goa through a Press statement issued through the Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP), on Tuesday made its most unambiguous statement yet on the rampant illegalities in
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AITUC to file intervention plea in SC for resuming legal mining
PANJIM: The Goa unit of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) has decided to file intervention application in the Supreme Court, seeking directives for immediate resumption of all legal mining operations in Goa. The application would be filed on November 2, when the ongoing case would be heard next. Addressing a press conference, AITUC General Secretary Christopher Fonseca said that Goa Mining Labour Welfare Union under AITUC has been constituted, which would be filing the intervention petition in Supreme Court to put across all the facts affecting livelihood of mining dependent people, with the suspension of mining operations.