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Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Shield melts off
Letters - May 16-31, 2013
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
Dam smart
India’s power mess
Issue Date: May 15, 2013
Over the past several months, the power situation in the country has reached dire straits. Media reports that blackouts lasting 10 hours a day are forcing small-scale industries to either shut down or operate partially; textile mills in Tamil Nadu and the manufacturing sector in Andhra Pradesh are examples. Operating heavy machineries for long hours on diesel is prohibitively expensive apart from being highly polluting.
Ganga saga part II: redesign dams, not rivers
@sunitanar Issue Date: May 15, 2013
Engineers require re-training, not the Ganga. This is where I had left our conversation last fortnight. Why did I say this? The inter-ministerial committee I participated in as a member was discussing how much the ecological flow—the water that should be left in the river for ecosystem and livelihood purposes—should be at all times. How much water is needed for the river to be a river; and not a drain?
NHPC cornered over Subansiri
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
Training engineers, not Ganga
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
Hydropower is important. But how important? Is it important enough to dry up stretches of our rivers? Or is there a way to balance the need of energy with the imperative of a flowing, healthy river? I have been grappling with these issues for the past few months.
Industry shadow on forest panel
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2012
THREE days after protests by environmentalists, a non-official member of the newly-constituted Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), accused of having conflict of interest, has resigned. The committee, under the Union environment ministry, grants clearances for diversion of forestland for non-forest purposes.
Powerless and lost
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2012
The power blackout in northern India on two days should not be dismissed or misjudged. Analysts are jumping to conclude that the crisis was foretold. They blame delays caused by environment and forest clearance procedures and demand winding down the regulatory framework so that we can re-energise ourselves.
Cleared at cost of biodiversity
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2012
THE UNION environment ministry has given in-principle clearance to a proposed hydro-project on the Alaknanda river, a tributary of the Ganga, in Uttarakhand. The 300 MW project had been rejected twice by the statutory body which recommends forest clearances, the forest advisory committee (FAC). FAC says the project lies in the buffer zone of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (NDBR), a home to many endangered species.
