Seven activists win top environmental prize
A coal miner's daughter fighting to end a destructive form of mining and two Aboriginal elders working to block the construction of a nuclear waste dump in Australia were among seven winners of a top
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ONGC to invest Rs 100 cr in coal -bed methane exploration
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation will invest close to Rs 100 crore in exploration of coal - bed methane over the next five years. " Initial investment in exploration of CBM reserves in the four blocks
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Brickbats
Manufacturers won t mix fly ash in bricks; to go on strike
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Is environment on the agenda?
With a recession hit economy to revive, it remains to be seen how much priority the environment will get when the new administration takes over in Washington.
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Power generation at two plants likely to suffer by mega block
Nagpur: The power generation of Maharashtra State Electricity Generation Company (Mahagenco) is likely to suffer this week as coal supply to its Koradi and Khaperkheda plants would be interrupted due to the mega rail block between Bhilai and Bilaspur, official sources said.
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Time to bid adieu
April 23 marked the end of the 300-year-old coal mining industry in France. On that day, the last symbolic block of coal was extracted from the La Houve mine near the town of Creutzwald, abutting the
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EU s tragic flaw
Europe may not meet Kyoto targets due to love for coal
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Theirs to mine?
This is the question angry and beleaguered tribals in Orissa and Jharkhand are asking, as mining companies set up shop in the midst of their land and forests, rooting to uproot them.<br> <br> It is a question the companies answer firmly in the affirm
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Public hearing facades
<img src="../files/images/20080415/dot.gif" align="centre">UCIL's bauxite mine project: Assistance from rapid action force was sought to conduct public hearing. No environmental issue was taken up during the hearing<br>
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Sponge iron y
Orissa turning into a haven for the hazardous industry
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Heat and Gas
The proposed construction of two gas fuelled power plants has become a hotly debated issue in Norway
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There s a brighter side to flyash use
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Mechanisation of mining operations still an idea in India
Safety the major casualty in mining
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Billowing Rage
The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke spewing sponge iron plant in the area.
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Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bangladesh, December 2013
Young children are at risk of serious health problems from toxic materials found in toys widely available in the capital city of Bangladesh. A recent study, undertaken by the Environment and Social Development Organisation, identified high levels of lead, cadmium, bromine and chromium in all but one of 40 toys that were analysed. Read more in this December 2013 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bangladesh published by the South Asia Environment Portal
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Budget 2013-2014: speech of P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Budget 2013-2014: speech of P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3INZf8nHwdY"
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Call for privatisation of old oilfields
The Economic Survey has reiterated that the government should raise output by privatising the oil fields and hence reduce dependence on imported crude oil. India, which spent $48.389 billion to import its crude oil needs in 2006-07, has already spent $48.02 billion on crude imports in the first nine months of the current fiscal because of rise in international oil prices. The pre-budget survey that was tabled in Parliament, suggested selling old oil fields to private sector and for application of improved and enhanced oil recovery techniques. Besides stepping up domestic production, the remaining deficit would have to be bridged by entering into strategic geo-political alliances to access energy assets in the region, the Survey said, pointing to the need of making investments in energy chain in West Asia and Africa. Reducing incremental import dependence of the country's energy requirement requires tapping of coal reserves, accelerating exploration of oil and gas, fully exploiting the nuclear and hydro potential for power generation and expediting programmes for energy generation through renewables, the survey stated. While production from old fields declined, the award of 162 new areas for exploration under New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) since 1999 have led to 46 oil and gas discoveries to add 600 million tons of oil equivalent hydrocarbon reserves. As on April 1, 2007, the investment made by Indian and foreign companies in NELP blocks was $ 3.887 billion, out of which only 30 per cent was by the national oil companies.
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Jharkhand plagued by silicosis
Most of us regard the Egyptian pyramids as architectural masterpieces. Justifiably so: the monuments are among the world's finest heritage. But then how many of us know the fate of the workers
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Hungary resents Slovak dam
Hungarians are raising environmental slogans against opening of the Gabcikovo dam's sluice gates by Czechoslovakia. The dam is built on the river Danube, which flows along the border between the two countries.