Lafarge Meghalaya mining gets Indian SC relief
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
NEW DELHI, April 13 (BSS): The Indian Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to consider French cement company Lafarge's application for granting environmental and forest clearance and also look into the conditions proposed by Attorney General GE Vahanavati for lifting ban on mining operations of the company, a report said.
Attorney General Goolam E. Vahanvati told a special forest three-member bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan that the expert committee, constituted by the ministry of environment and forests, while giving clearance to the French company had confirmed that most of the environmental conditions have been complied by Lafarge The economic daily 'Financial Times' report said.
The bench have two weeks time to the centre to give various clearances and posted the matter for hearing on April 26, it said.
The Attorney General insisted that limestone mining in Meghalaya's dense forest by the French multination for its cement plant in Bangladesh should be allowed to resume after asking the company to pay for diversion of forest land for non-forest uses.
Attorney General Goolam E. Vahanvati told a special forest three-member bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan that the expert committee, constituted by the ministry of environment and forests, while giving clearance to the French company had confirmed that most of the environmental conditions have been complied by Lafarge The economic daily 'Financial Times' report said.
The bench have two weeks time to the centre to give various clearances and posted the matter for hearing on April 26, it said.
The Attorney General insisted that limestone mining in Meghalaya's dense forest by the French multination for its cement plant in Bangladesh should be allowed to resume after asking the company to pay for diversion of forest land for non-forest uses.