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➢ Windmills to Pay Environmental Compensation of Rs 50 Lakh in Andhra Pradesh

Case: Kallpavalli Vrikha Pempakamdarula Paraspara Sahayaka Sahakara Sangam Ltd. & Anr. Versus Union of India & Ors. [Original Application No. 92 of 2013 before National Green Tribunal]

The subject matter of this Application before NGT lies with the Applicants’ concern with regard to the possible adverse effects from the windmills project undertaken in the Kallpavalli area of Andhra Pradesh. The Application sought specific reliefs including- setting up of an expert committee to understand the actual threat which these windmills pose on the environment and human health; restoration of all the water bodies in the region, which had suffered in the hands of pollution and excavation caused during the construction and setting up of these windmills; inclusion of windmill farms in Category A of the schedule of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006; and compensation for losses suffered.

Issue taken up:  “Whether the installed windmills have caused any adverse environmental impact, and if so, whether there should be any direction for restitution or restoration of the environment.”

Held: Rs. 50 Lakhs to be deposited, by the company, as environmental compensation with the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board, which shall be used for restoration of ecology and environment of the area; trees of local indigenous species to be planted under guidance of State Forest Department on the constructed road; trees to be planted on hill top around wind turbines, which shall be maintained as a green area; plastic to be disposed properly.

Provision for compliance: Compliance Report on action taken to be filed every six months for five years.

http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/Writereaddata/Downloads/92-2013(PB-I-Judg)OA25-8-2015.pdf

Maneka Kaur

Environmental Lawyer, LIFE, New Delhi.

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