CHENNAI: The National Green Tribunal Southern Zone has kept in abeyance the environmental clearance granted to Uppur thermal power plant in Ramanathapuram.
\nTangedco had in 2012 obtained the Union environment ministry\u2019s nod to set up the 1,600MW supercritical plant and foreshore facilities.
\nResidents of the area said it would affect nearby lakes, agricultural land, and marine life and that a bridge proposed to be constructed as part of the project wouldn\u2019t let traditional country boats with high masts through. They also alleged that Tangedco\u2019s decision to drop using 100 % imported coal and to mix domestic coal (ratio of 70:30) could worsen air pollution.
\nAfter residents moved the NGT, Tangedco and other government agencies involved said only 26% of the 1,3423 acres acquired was agricultural land and that there was no violation of environmental clearance or CRZ norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHENNAI: The National Green Tribunal Southern Zone has kept in abeyance the environmental clearance granted to Uppur thermal power plant in Ramanathapuram. Tangedco had in 2012 obtained the Union environment ministry\u2019s nod to set up the 1,600MW supercritical plant and foreshore facilities. Residents of the area said it would affect nearby lakes, agricultural land, and marine life and that a bridge proposed to be constructed as part of the project wouldn\u2019t let traditional country boats with high masts through. They also alleged that Tangedco\u2019s decision to drop using 100 % imported coal and to mix domestic coal (ratio of 70:30) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405643","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}