SC fixes date to hear petitions against Adani Mannar wind power project

Colombo, August 02 (Daily Mirror) -  Five Fundamental Rights applications filed seeking an order preventing the authorities from issuing any permits to Adani Green Energy Sri Lanka Limited (AGESL), to carrying out the wind power plant in the Mannar Island were today fixed for hearing on October 14 by the Supreme Court. 

These petitions are to be heard before a fuller bench of the Supreme Court on the next hearing date.

Several petitioners including the Centre for Environmental Justice and the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka filed these applications seeking an order preventing the authorities, including the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority from engaging in or carrying out the Mannar wind power project (Phase – II).