Following The Indian Express report, building of Pinjore road put on hold, debris disposal gets priority The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board (HPPCB) has asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to immediately stop work on the Pinjore-Shimla highway.
While the Goa Government repeatedly assures that environmental concerns from the large quantities of tar balls washed ashore on several beaches in the State will be dealt with quickly, it remains clueless on combating another crisis: the ongoing disintegration of a cargo vessel that has remained grounded off the shore for a decade now. Caught in a maze of red tape, the vessel River Princess con
MUMBAI: The menace of oil slicks, debris and tar balls washing up along the western coastline and onto beaches is acute in south Mumbai. State environment secretary Valsa Nair- Singh said on Monday that the Colaba coast was the second-most-affected area after the August 7 collision of two ships, which led to an oil spill in the sea.
Shyam Balasubramanian | ENS Shyam B Chennai, A bunch of young boys stood on the beach facing the sunrise. They stared in utter concentration at the point where the waves washed up against the shore. Suddenly, one of the boys dived at the ebbing wave with a loud whoop, catching the attention of his comrades.
Vedanta Group Co Was Told To Close Copper Smelting Plant For Environmental Hazards New Delhi: Sterlite Industries on Thursday moved the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court order that directed the company to shut down its copper smelting plant at Tuticorin for not complying with the environmental norms.
IT was when the men in moon suits arrived that it really sank in. There they were, with breathing apparatus and impermeable all-in-ones, gingerly taking away the material that had been sitting for five years in an open-air scrapyard in the middle of the busiest part of town.
Ocean currents work magic when they help ships navigate from one place to the other or bring rain. However, together with the Horse latitudes, they also have created a new continent as big as Africa and still expanding, which may never support life because it is plain garbage, dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
More than two years after these were purchased by the Municipal Corporation (MC), the mechanised road sweeping machines continue to be money guzzlers. While the utility of these machines purchased from Italy had been under scanner, it has come to light that Rs. 32.63 lakh has been paid in excess to the amount approved by the General House for the project. Besides, around Rs.
The government of Kyrgyzstan has decided to block the shipment of uranium-contaminated graphite to the country by the British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) for processing. The step is in line with the
Demand market rate for power after agreeing to a lower rate SUGAR cooperatives of Maharashtra that have set up power plants that use sugarcane waste as fuel, are trying to wriggle out of their commitment to supply power at lower rates to the state-owned power distribution company, Mahara- shtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (msedcl). Nagpur-based Purti Sugar Mills has moved an
First-ever state of-the-art wastage to energy power plant will be set up at Rachna industrial park on Lahore Sheikhupura Road. The park will have its own 5 to 25 megawatt power plant, which would produce energy from waste for the industries.
Bengaluru, March 14: A chemical engineer from the city is on a mission to promote the use of green energy. Avinash Narayanaswamy, chemical engineer and postgraduate in sustainable energy technology from the University of Twente in Netherlands, will drive 17,000 km from London to Mongolia in a vehicle run entirely on bio-fuel derived out of waste vegetable oil.
Manisha Pande / New Delhi September 13, 2010, 0:56 IST Having grown up in Baithania village of Bihar, Gyanesh Pandey knows how erratic electricity supply can be. Today, the 34-year-old, along with his friend Ratnesh Yadav, has found a way to generate electricity with rice husk.
This handbook is a practical aid to legislative drafting that brings together, for the first time, model texts of provisions covering all aspects of nuclear law in a consolidated form.
A new chemical process may help unlock biofuels from trees and plant waste in a shift from using food crops such as sugar cane to generate fuel, scientists said Thursday. They said they found an enzyme that helped break down chitin, a stiff material similar to woody cellulose that is found in the skeletons of crustaceans -- such as lobsters or crabs -- as well as insects. "We regard this as
A tiny Canadian startup company that is preparing to open a biodiesel plant in Toronto this spring says it will produce clean fuel, animal feed and human food all from the modest flax seed. Privately held Energy Innovation Corp, which has also developed a way to produce biofuel from used coffee grounds, said its production process creates multiple revenue streams, but no waste. "The demand i
The Central Pollution Control Board plays foul in inventorising NCR's hazardous waste generation
flyash, the notorious waste product of coal-based thermal power plants, known for its ill effects on agricultural land, may now come as an aid for the farming community. Scientists of
The convoluted laws of the country fail to tackle the menace caused by the exponentially growing and powerful plastic industry in India
japan's largest producer of pulp and paper has said that the paper industry plans to expand its overseas forest plantations from 93,000 hectares last year to 550,000 hectares by the year 2010.
