Barsu ratnagiri

The story so far: On April 25, the Maharashtra government started conducting soil testing at Rajapur tehsil’s Barsu village in the coastal Ratnagiri district to know if the site was suitable for the proposed multi-billion dollar Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (RRPCL) project which is touted as the world’s largest single location refinery complex. As of April 2022, India’s oil refining capacity stood at 251.2 million metric tonnes per annum, making it the second-largest refiner in Asia and the fourth largest in the world. What is the Barsu refinery project? The project, which is expected to have a capacity of 60 million tonnes per annum, is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited. The project was initially mooted in 2014 and is estimated to cost around rupees three lakh crore. Saudi Aramco and ADNOC, as per an agreement signed in 2018, hold a 50% stake. They also agreed to jointly build and develop the refinery and petrochemicals complex. Besides fuel, the project also proposes to develop various downstream petrochemicals to meet India’s fast-growing petrochemical demand. Initially, the project was supposed to come up at Nanar, about 20 kilometres from Barsu. However, due to strong opposition from the locals, environmental activists and the Shiv Sena, the project was denotified in 2019. How have the villagers ...

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Situation remained tense in Ratnagiri district's Barsu-Solgaon on Wednesday, 26 April, as protesters stood firm against Maharashtra government-sponsored oil refinery and petrochemicals project proposed in the area. The government had deployed hundreds of police officers in the villages on Tuesday ahead of the soil testing survey. As the protesters tried to block the officers' way to their land, it led to a confrontation between them and the police. The police detained many protesters on Tuesday, releasing them later in the night. Earlier, women protesters had blocked the way of the officials' vehicles by laying their bodies on the road. Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Vinayak Raut and Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Vaibhav Naik visited Barsu on Wednesday to meet the protesters. A woman protester, in a public interaction in the presence of Raut, accused the police of manhandling them. "We were going towards our land for its protection. All the police officers came and started beating us. Their stick touched my eyes too. (Pointing towards an old lady) they beat that grandma too, beat others with batons," she alleged. "We saw the police encampment that has been set up to suppress the voice of the locals. We saw the encampment, the stick-batons meant for suppressing the voice of Konkan's people. The police officers have been brought here from across the state. Who are they doing it for? Are these protesters not locals? The voice of the locals who are protesting is being suppressed." The oil refinery ...

Land at Barsu village in Ratnagiri for refinery project suggested by Uddhav when he was Maha CM: minister Samants statement comes amid protests by local people in the coastal district against the soil survey work for the multi-billion dollar refinery project.On January 12, 2022, then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting that the state government can make available 1,300 acres of land and another 2,144 acres of land in Natya area for the refinery. | Nashik | Updated: 25-04-2023 16:33 IST | Created: 25-04-2023 16:20 IST Uday Samant (File Photo) Image Credit: ANI • Country: • India • SHARE • • • • Maharashtra Industries Minister and Shiv Sena leader Uday Samant on Tuesday said the Barsu village site for a proposed refinery project in Ratnagiri district was suggested by then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray who had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Samant's statement comes amid protests by local people in the coastal district against the soil survey work for the multi-billion dollar refinery project. “On January 12, 2022, then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting that the state government can make available 1,300 acres of land and another 2,144 acres of land in Natya (area) for the refinery. He suggested the Barsu site for the project,'' Samant told a press conference in Nashik. He claimed Thackeray's letter also mentioned that there are no settlements and t...

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