Ratnagiri Plant

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  Maharashtra Mega Refinery Project With Aramco In Trouble: Report

  India is considering building several refineries instead of a single mega plant planned with Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), due to challenges in acquiring land, three sources familiar with the matter said.

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  14 Hospitalised After Ammonia Gas Leak From Chemical Plant In Maharashtra

  At least 14 people, including women and children, were admitted to hospital after inhaling ammonia gas which leaked from a chemical plant in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, police said Monday.

• Andhra Pradesh power woes: Centre diverts gas from Krishna-Godavari Basin

  The woes of power-starved Andhra Pradesh have been further compounded with the Centre's order that two million metric standard cubic meters per day of gas be diverted from the Krishna-Godavari Basin to the Ratnagiri power plant in Maharashtra.

• Fuelling dissent: Coal power plants

  The Maharashtra Government has been aggressively marketing the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Ratnagiri district. In the same area it is bringing in a huge line-up of coal-based power projects ignoring the pollution factor. The village here has large-scale cashew, mango and coconut plantations. Not unusual for any village in this region. But thi...

• Politics add danger to Jaitapur nuclear plant protests

  At Jaitapur in Maharashtra, the protests against a new nuclear power plant - it will be the world's largest when completed - have collided with politics. The area is under siege now with politicians arriving in quick succession to stake their claim.A bandh called by the Shiv Sena in Ratnagiri, a two hour drive away from Jaitapur, saw a hospital att...

• Fresh clashes in Jaitapur over nuclear plant, protesters lathicharged

  Fresh protests erupted in Ratnagiri today following the death of a youth in police firing on Monday during demonstrations against the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant. The protests have taken on political colours with the Maharashtra government accusing the Shiv Sena of stoking tension.The police also stopped Sena leaders allegedly moving arou...

• Land prices soar around disputed nuclear project site

  Even as naysayers are raising the bugbear of Japan's dual disaster as justification to stall the creation of a 10,000 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, something atypical is happening in and around the disputed site in Ratnagiri district. Its land has suddenly climbed up the real estate charts to be the prime property in the region, being traded ...

• Maharashtra Congress team in Jaitapur as protests intensify

  As farmers' protests intensified in Ratnagiri threatening to delay the nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, a concerned Maharashtra government sent a Congress team there to review the situation.  Villagers in the area claim their lands were forcefully taken away, and that the project has no plans for storage or disposal of nuclear waste."A Congres...

• Impact assessment report criticises Jaitapur nuclear plant

  An impact assessment report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has strongly criticised the nuclear power plant being proposed at Jaitapur in the Konkan region. The report has indicated that the project - which requires about 968 hectares of land panning five villages - will have a huge negative impact on the social as well as environme...

• Jaitapur power plant gets environmental clearance

  The world's largest nuclear park has got the go ahead.The 9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power project to be set up in collaboration with a French firm in Maharashtra will soon become a reality albeit with some conditions.The project will help energy deficient states like Maharashtra which face compulsory power cuts.  The project has faced its fair...