Press on Environment and Wildlife

Okhla residents knock MoEF's door against power plant citing threat to ecology (July Week #1 (2013))

The plant has been facing a case from the Sukhdev Vihar Residents’ Welfare Association in the National Green Tribunal and moreover, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has a White Paper available on its website which is against such thermal treatment
of waste to generate energy, as revealed by environmental activist Gopal Krishna of the ToxicsWatch Alliance, who has ben campaigning against the plant since March 2005.

The plant, which essentially is polluting in nature, has been using unapproved Chinese technology, giving a short shrift to the ecological fragility and sensitivity of the area.

Located within 2 Km of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, the plant does not have the mandatory clearances from the National Board for Wildlife and if one goes by the guidelines of the MoEF in this regard, there is a clear-cut prohibition against the setting up
of industries that cause pollution of any sort.