22 July 2020 Director General, Central Environmental Authority, 104, Denzil Kobbekaduwa Mawatha, Battaramulla Dear Sir, COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED SEETHAWAKA GANGA HYDROPOWER PROJECT (SGHP) Centre for Environmental...
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Protect Residual Forests or Declare Grassland as Forests
Hemantha Withanage,Executive Director, Centre for Environmental Justice Today,(26 june, 2020) CEJ sent a letter of demand to the Secretary of the Ministry of Environment demanding him to protect the 5/2001 circular...
Case update-Supreme Court case SC/FR/57/17 on Mini-hydro development dismissed
Centre for Environmental Justice and 5 others filed a law suit in the Supreme Court in 2017 against the Sustainable Energy Authority(SEA) and others on haphazard construction of Mini-hydro power plants without adhering...
PRESS RELEASE—CEJ filed Legal action on Mt. Lavinia sand filling and beach pollution CA/WRT/128/2020
19, June 2020, Colombo- Today Centre for Environmental Justice filed a new court case in the Court of Appeal CA/WRT/128/2020 against Coast Conservation Department(CCD), Central Environmental Authority(CEA), Minister of...
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For Immediate Recruitment—-(1)ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT( ONE POST) (2) MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT( ONE POST) Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) is a national level environmental organization based in Sri Lanka established...
CHANGE YOUR PRODUCTION & CONSUMPTION PATTERN BEFORE LOSE OUR PRODUCTIVE LANDS
2020.06.17 MEDIA BRIEFING...
Why Do we oppose Degazetting Wedithalative Nature Reserve?
Centre for Environmental Justice Political Pressure to degazette Wedithalathive Nature reserve has now come to the peak under the new political regime. This attempt was began in 2017 in order to cultivate exotic prawn...
Large dams in Sri Lanka are a false solution to climate change and water scarcity
Originally Published in Forest Cover 61- Global Forest Coalition Newsletter on May 22, 2020, International Day for Biological Diversity By Hemantha Withanage, Centre for Environmental Justice and GFC regional focal...
ONCE CORONA LOCKDOWN IS OVER
We should not go back to pre Corona situation once Corona lockdown is over. We have many learnings during Corona. This article proposes the need to address root causes of environmental degradation while respecting human...
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