As per the latest reports, decks have been cleared for a gas-based power plant at Hope Town in Andaman and Nicobar Islands to give clean energy, an advancement that has required changes in two of the connected guidelines by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).
The plant will come up in South Andaman area’s Ferrargunj tehsil. The Ministry giving a green sign to changes under Island Protection Zone (IZP) and Island Coastal Regulation Zone (ICRZ) for the plant that will be situated at “around two sections of land of undulated desolate land having unpredictable geography with height of 2 m above MSL exists along the coastline”.
“The need to give an empowering arrangement in the IPZ/ICRZ warning to meet the energy prerequisite of the islanders while decreasing the reliance on exceptionally contaminating sources like regular diesel generators (DG sets) was given prime thought,” the Ministry said about the freedom concurred on Thursday. The plant is supposed to deal with “double fuel innovation i.e., through Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) or High-Speed Diesel (HSD) or single fuel (LNG)”.
The MoEF&CC had given the notice with respect to Island Protection Zone (IPZ) in January 2011 by which certain beach front stretches were pronounced as Coastal Regulation Zone and limitations were forced on setting up and development of businesses, tasks, and cycles around there.
Comparable were the limitations under the March 2019 notice opposite Island Coastal Regulation Zone (ICRZ), particularly for spots like the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Service records show that when the Center got a proposition from the Andaman and Nicobar Coastal Zone Management Authority (ANCZMA) in regards to the incorporation of Gas-based power plant inside the ICRZ region under the arrangements of the IPZ Notification 2011, the National Coastal Zone Management Authority (NCZMA) on August 16, 2021 supported the requirement for giving cleaner fuel rather than the profoundly contaminating sources like customary diesel generators (DG sets) involved by the Islanders without guaranteed power supply.
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