Work stopped on Ganga dams

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Submitted by shompa on Fri, 2010-07-16 16:36

New Delhi: More than 100 hydroelectric projects planned by the Uttarakhand government are in jeopardy. The Union environment and forests ministry's Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has decided not to give forest clearance to any of the proposed projects until the National Ganga River Basin Authority conducts a cumulative impact assessment study of all proposed dams.

Name of the Newspaper: 
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
Water Resources
Rivers
Ganga
Dams/ Irrigation
Forest Conservation
Hydroelectricity
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Nitin SethI
River Basin
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Dams/ Irrigation
Author: 
Nitin SethI
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DNB
IGF
Report
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http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=CAP/2010/07/16&PageLabel=1&EntityId=Ar00107&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T
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Publication Date: 
16/07/2010