May 05, 2006: The Machi community residing at Pale-Lingapada in the estuarine wetlands of the Dahanu creek where Reliance's thermal power plant is located, have found the hot water discharge from the 500 MW coal fired station to be beyond permissible limits. Using an alcohol thermometer, the community has been regularly testing the waters at the inlet and outlet points of the Plant. As per the consent conditions issued by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), Reliance Energy is permitted to release water not higher than . . .
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March 23, 2006: The Maharahstra Maritime Board (MMB) has recently re-opened its plans to set up an industrial port in Vadhavan, Dahanu despite an order passed in 1998 declaring it illegal and impermissible. In response to a global tender floated by the Maharashtra Maritime Board in 1996 to set up an all weather industrial port in Alewadi, Palghar, P&O Ports Australia submitted its bid. A clause in the tender agreement allowed for a change of location and the company opted to locate the port in Vadhavan, that falls in ecologically fragile . . .
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