Governments around the world will decide, at the on-going Fifth Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention, whether to continue allowing the recycling of materials containing dangerous chemicals, Executive Director of the Centre for Environmental Justice Hemantha Withanage said. The Stockholm Convention
Tata Power on Wednesday announced the commercial operation of its 3MW photo voltaic solar power plant at Mulshi in Maharashtra. This is in pursuance of its objective of building a renewable energy portfolio that is 20-25 per cent of it total generation capacity estimated at 25,000 MW by 2017, said Mr S. Ramakrishnan, executive director, finance, Tata Power.
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined three dyeing factories in Narayanganj Tk 70 lakh and ordered to stop production and set up effluent treatment plant (ETP) by June. During a drive at Fatullah, the DoE team found gross violation of government instructions for setting up ETP, and the factories discharging liquid waste directly into the Buriganga. The three factories fined are
TEPCO also started increasing the amount of water being injected into the troubled No.1 reactor core as it prepared to flood the unit's primary containment vessel to cool the fuel inside in a stable manner Scrambling hard to contain its worst atomic crisis, Japan is mulling setting up of a huge underground tank in the compound of Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent contamination from seeping into
The campaign to ban endosulfan is gaining momentum even as India is striving hard to persuade the ongoing conference of 172 countries to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants to postpone this decision by another year. Endosulfan is a chemical widely used as an insecticide.
India is mulling the idea of a power grid linking South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries including India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka which has the potential to create 1,00,000 MW capacity in the region. Indian Minister of State for Power KC Venugopal was quoted by Indian news media as saying on Wednesday that the power grid, meant for common use among
With the increase in temperature, the glaciers in Gilgit-Baltistan have started melting, resulting in significant increase in flows in rivers, streams and nullahs. Usually, the temperature increases in Himalayan, Hindukush and Karakuram ranges of mountains soon after March, but this time the weather remained cold until last week due to rains and snowfall. The electricity generation and power
The tribunal officer carrying out a probe into the Sorrange coalmine accident which claimed lives of dozens of miners, has directed officials of the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) to present a report on the issue at the next hearing of the tribunal. Methane gas explosions at a coalmine in the Sorrange area on March 20 had killed 43 miners and, according to officials, the mine h
MUMBAI: Though more than 50% of the Japanese population has backed nuclear power despite the debacle at Fukushima following the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, people are still concerned about its safety, Japanese ambassador to India, Akitaka Saiki, said. Addressing a packed meeting organized by the Observer Research Foundation, a think tank, on Monday, Saiki said that the public's apprehen
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to set up an autonomous authority within a year for ensuring smooth provision of drinking water and sewerage and sanitation services in Peshawar. According to a handout, Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti gave approval for establishment of the authority during a meeting here on Wednesday.
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The Wildlife Conservation Department has planned to conduct a census of the elephant population in Sri Lankan forests this year. A senior official of the department said the enumeration will commence during the drought this August when water holes and minor irrigation canals run dry compelling wild animals to go in search of water to reservoirs and tanks.
The devolution of the agriculture ministry would create serious food security, international co-operation and agriculture research problems, as the provinces except Punjab do not have complete agri infrastructure along with different topography and soil structure. The most import aspect is that agriculture may be a provincial subject but provision of food, research and professional/higher educa
Singrauli will have 3000 MW capacity thermal power project based on super critical technique. This would be the first of its kind in the country.
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti has approved in principle the establishment of an autonomous authority for clean drinking water, sewerage and sanitation in provincial capital, Peshawar. The chief minister has directed the concerned authorities for submission of joint proposals in consultation with all stakeholders for finalisation of all matters in this connection.
Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh, along with Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, on Wednesday launched a programme giving tribals right to harvest bamboo as a forest produce in a tribal village here. Ramesh and Chavan handed over transit passes to tribals of Lekha Mendha village thus according them the right of harvesting and managing bamboo as a forest produce.
<p>During the 2011 International Year of Forests, WWF’s Living Forests Report is part of a year?long conversation with partners, policymakers, and business about how to protect, conserve, sustainably use, and govern the world’s forests in the 21st century.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Environment and Forests has notified various acts and rules for environmental governance. The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 elaborates the procedure for seeking environmental clearance and preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports and Environment Management Plans.
<p>Letter to Sharad Pawar by Minister of Farmer's Welfare and Agriculture Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh on endosulfan.</p>
