‘Gross environmental mismanagement’: Adani’s Udupi coal-power plant fined over US $6 million Ayaskant Das Jun 24, 2022 https://www.adaniwatch.org/_gross_environmental_mismanagement_adani_s_udupi_coal_power_plant_penalised India’s premier environmental court says the Udupi power plant has polluted local fields and villages with emissions, coal dust, fly ash and wastewater. Inhabitants have suffered respiratory diseases and impacts on their livelihoods due to loss of agricultural productivity. Will the Adani company pay the fine or will it launch a protracted set of appeals?
The Adani Group purchased the 2X600 Mega Watt (MW) power plant in April 2015 from the Indian business conglomerate Lanco Infratech which had been the largest private electricity supplier in the country.