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[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

Latest issue of our quarterly newsletter on envt governance is here. It has updates from Sep to Dec 2025. It has regulatory updates, court verdicts, year-end summary & a book review.

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[SANDRP @Indian_Rivers]

Apart from experts, officials & civil society groups, the Union Minister Jitendra Singh & Deputy CM Surinder Choudhary have openly linked these damages to excessive mining in riverbeds and near bridge foundations weakening their structural stability. https://t.co/ZW1RV7lo8H

[Meenakshi Kapoor @meenaxshikapoor]

Himachal passes a regularisation policy. While it says structures over forests will be regularised to the benefit of the landless, such exercises in the past have favored commercial interests. I shared the experience from Dharamshala @MongabayIndia
https://t.co/QiuI2I7RI8

[SANDRP @Indian_Rivers]

-How does the island city claim water frm outside its own jurisdiction? The answer lies not just in dams, pipelines, engineering or even Mumbai’s economic & political power as capital. It is in something less visible: how the region ws mapped & imagined. https://t.co/LtLrzbJZch

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

Rules for forest conservation may facilitate diversions

[Meenakshi Kapoor @meenaxshikapoor]

Last year, the Indian envt ministry brought changes into the forest conservation rules. Read the latest by me for @MongabayIndia to find out how they compromise public & expert scrutiny of forest diversion proposals & may result in an overall forest loss.

https://t.co/6Q60MyPOdz

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

"Defying The Law It Must Uphold—Wildlife Board’s Decisions Violate Wildlife Act & Supreme Court Orders" by Prakriti Srivastava and @prernabindra

https://t.co/b928FQdt4l

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

“If the proposed standing committee consists of ex-officio members appointed by the Union government, the independence and expert-driven nature of the appraisal stage may come under question,” says Shibani Ghosh, Advocate, Supreme Court. @jayashreenandi

https://t.co/RGc40HdDda

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

NEW: @moefcc creates Standing Authority on Envt Impact Assessment (SAEIA) for the times when the State Envt Impact Assessment Authorities (SEIAA) are non-functional.

Nothing should come in the way of approvals!

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

Delayed reports to attract costs before being taken on record: NGT https://t.co/cWVF7DI3iL

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

NGT directs MoUD to pay Rs 1 lakh cost for non-appearance, warns against delaying environmental casesRead more At: https://t.co/NW7j3N0Cqi

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

LATEST by the MoEFCC: "The project proponent being directed to make a separate presentation before the SEIAA is not in line with the provisions of the EIA Notification 2006 and it leads to duplication of effort and unnecessary delay in the overall timeline for the grant of EC"

[Meenakshi Kapoor @meenaxshikapoor]

Ropeways are not without environmental impacts, their green image notwithstanding. Reposting this piece by me on impacts of ropeways in the Himalayas https://t.co/NPLqsiOtbJ @DialogueEarth_

[Meenakshi Kapoor @meenaxshikapoor]

Despite government claims that no tree-felling permissions were granted, locals report that ~ 80 of the 200 marked trees have already been cut.

Allegedly documents have been forged & many approvals unauthorised @himachalhdlines

#HimachalPradesh

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[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

NEW: The @moefcc adds 'zero period' to the validity of environmental clearance for the time period during which a project remains sub judice.

https://t.co/4JHBSe0NBJ

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

Urgency Clause Invoked for Land Acquisition for Critical Military Infrastructure in Great Nicobar’s Govind Nagar

https://t.co/1aoVumC5rH

Additional 75% urgency amount given in other cases will not apply to acquisitions for national security or strategic interests. #GreatNicobar

[Meenakshi Kapoor @meenaxshikapoor]

"Does the world still need the annual jamboree of COP, given its record?" by @Indian_Rivers

https://t.co/tM8HIgdECj

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

Environment ministry panel relies on 'false, outdated data' to review Sharavathy project

https://t.co/zbUQkukE69

[India Environment Matters @ReDraftEIA2020]

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[Meenakshi Kapoor @meenaxshikapoor]

Latest: Oiling the Wheels: India’s Green Ministry is Bending Backwards to Facilitate Oil Extraction in its Protected Areas. 1/10

#Thread

Remember the 2020 oil leak and subsequent fire in well no. 5 in Baghjan oil fields of Oil India Limited (OIL)?

https://t.co/zILSfbBH9m

[SANDRP @Indian_Rivers]

Why should an EIA consultant give a problematic EIA report if the masters, the project proponents only want a positive EIA report? Particularly as the consultant wants to remain in EIA business and get more EIA consultancy jobs? https://t.co/Ufh8qmQKmV