NGT forms 3-member committee to evaluate risk over Nayara Energy expansion
The Hindu
A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directed the project proponent Nayara Energy to ensure that all necessary safeguards are adopted and EC conditions duly complied.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a three-member committee to evaluate the risk associated with the expansion of oil refinery of Nayara Energy Limited, owned by Russian giant Rosneft, in Gujarat and suggest remedial measures. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, while refusing to interfere with the grant of Environmental Clearance, directed the project proponent Nayara Energy to ensure that all necessary safeguards are adopted and EC conditions duly complied. “Invoking Precautionary principle, we constitute a three member Committee of Chief Wildlife Warden, Gujarat, Director, Marine National Park and State PCB to evaluate the risk associated with the activities of expansion of the project and suggest remedial measures to be taken.More Related News