India, April 16 -- Three units under them asked to pay Rs 17 crore in penalty to Central Pollution Control Board

Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd (ONGC) and GAIL Ltd prioritised production and extraction of oil and gas and did not pay attention to environmental and pollution mitigation measures in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin in Andhra Pradesh, flagged a report by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) April 13, 2021.

ONGC had on February 15 announced its plans to scale up gas production to two million metric standard cubic metres a day (MMSCMD) of natural gas from June-end from the $5.07 billion KG-DWN-98 / 2 project.

But the joint committee of the green tribunal formed September 8, 2020 has flagged concerns: It did so on the basis of two s...