{"id":401746,"date":"2021-02-23T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T06:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401746"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T06:53:51","slug":"ngt-frame-guidelines-to-phase-out-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ngt-frame-guidelines-to-phase-out-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"NGT: Frame guidelines to phase-out power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the Union government, Central Electricity Authority (CEA), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the State-owned power company Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) India, following a petition filed \u2011 demanding proper disposal of hazardous substances while decommissioning a plant.     <\/p>\n<p>The petitioner Dharmesh Shah, who is an environmental activist, has stated that there are lack of effective guidelines for scientific decommissioning of thermal power plants. This can lead to non-disposal of remaining fly ash and other hazardous substances used during operation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the Union government, Central Electricity Authority (CEA), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the State-owned power company Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) India, following a petition filed \u2011 demanding proper disposal of hazardous substances while decommissioning a plant. The petitioner Dharmesh Shah, who is an environmental activist, has stated that there are lack of effective guidelines for scientific decommissioning of thermal power plants. This can lead to non-disposal of remaining fly ash and other hazardous substances used during operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}