The Future We Need
On 13-Dec-2022, the Supreme Court issued an order whose operative part says “We are, therefore, inclined to allow the State Government to carry out the dump mining activities in accordance with the Expert Committee’s Report and specifically paragraph 6 that is containing the recommendation of the Expert Committee.The application (I.A. No. 6524 of 2020) is disposed of in the above …
This third post discusses further implications of the Goa govt asking former leaseholders to vacate 88 mining leases
In the previous post, we had discussed the Rule 12(1)(hh) notice issued to the holders of the 88 illegally renewed leases asking them to take their property and vacate the leases. While this is an important and necessary step, it raises a number of questions. What about other leases? The first question is why notice has been issued to only …
Since the Goa legislative assembly elections, a change in strategy towards Goa’s iron ore mining is visible. A crucial step has been to order illegal miners to take their possessions and vacate the mines by 6-Jun-2022.
After the 2018 HC judgment stopping all sand mining in Goa as the regulations weren’t followed, illegal sand mining has been flourishing. Contempt of court petitions have been filed, but even the HC orders are ignored. This seizure came after protests in Uguem (where the river has become very deep and land lost), followed by prominent press coverage and a …
The Advocate-General agreed in the high court that the 300,000 tons of ore that was on the lease TC 95/52 (earlier with Damodar Mangalji) is illegal as there is no mining pit on the lease. The transportation of the ore had been blocked by the local villagers, who were brutally attacked by the police. Whose ore was it? Which lease …
The CM is reported to have said that the state government will e-auction all the mining leases — including the 88 mining leases whose second renewal was quashed by the Supreme Court — to restart mining. This raises the question of the role of the Goa Mineral Development Corporation.
The issues are before the SC – extraction cap, mandatory e-auctions & the export ban. https://theprint.in/india/sc-reserves-verdict-on-mining-companies-pleas-to-lift-ban-on-iron-ore-export-from-karnataka/921002/
We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children The intergenerational equity principle offers a criteria to judge whether we have been good ancestors to our children and the countless future generations to follow. The principle of Intergenerational Equity (IE) is, at its heart, quite simple. It is our duty to ensure future generations …
we particularly welcome the level of detail and commitment expressed by the All India Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) in support of the proposals of Goa Foundation and the Goenchi Mati Manifesto over recent days & we hope the TMC will faithfully implement all the actions advocated by GMM.