Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
Statement by the Ministers of Environmental Affairs, Mrs Edna Molewa, Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources, Godfrey Oliphant, at the launch of the strategic environmental assessment of shale gas development with the Ministries of, Water Affairs & Sanitation, and Energy We are gathered at this briefing …
Minister of Environmental Affairs to launch strategic environmental assessment of shale gas development, joined by the Department of Mineraal Resources, Science and Technology, Water and Sanitation and Energy The Minister of Environmental Affairs will launch the commission of a strategic environmental assessment of shale gas development in South Africa. The …
Academics, civil engineers and architects from three of six funds worth £23bn vote to sell off coal and high risk oil and gas – but lawyers, vets and other engineers vote against divestment Academics, civil engineers and architects in Denmark have voted in favour of their pension funds selling off …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pulled up the petroleum ministry for allowing Reliance Industries (RIL) to charge marketing margins in dollars, while it should have been in rupees. The auditor feels the ministry is responsible for not developing a pipeline network in the country leading to …
Oil and gas development, though it has met our demanding energy needs, also transforms landscapes, impacting both the environment and wildlife, new research says. As of late, roughly 50,000 new wells have been drilled annually in central North America, in areas such as the Bakken, Eagle Ford and the Marcellus …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on gas pricing, 27/04/2015 - - Question by Shri Anoop Mishra and answered by Minister of State (I/C) in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan.
U.S. government geologists now recognize much of Oklahoma as earthquake country, accounting for the bulk of 17 regions newly designated for seismic hazards attributed to underground disposal of wastewater from fossil fuel production. The 17 regions are delineated in the first official map by the U.S. Geological Survey documenting areas …
Real estate developer Hiranandani Group plans to set up a Rs 2,400 crore floating LNG import terminal off Haldia, West Bengal, and supply imported gas to users as far as Paradip in Odisha. H-Energy Pvt Ltd, the Energy arm of the Hiranandani Group, plans to set up a 4 million …
Private and state-owned energy companies own reserves of fuel containing more than 3,200 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide – nearly five times the amount that can be burned if the global temperature is to be kept to within safe levels, according to a report. The World Bank and Bank of England …
The world is now adding more clean energy capacity than oil, gas and coal combined, according to new research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). The switch occurred in 2013, when 143GW of clean electricity generation was brought online, compared to 141GW of fossil-fuel plants. BNEF now expects the gap …
India has ambitious targets for renewable energy growth. As part of its Union Budget 2015-2016, India aims to install 60 GW of wind power capacity and 100 GW of solar power capacity by 2022, which is more than six times the current installed capacities of approximately 22GW and 3GW, respectively. …
The U.S. energy portfolio changes over time. Scientific and technologic advances related to hydraulic fracturing have dramatically increased the supply of U.S. oil and gas; because of this, a methane economy - in which natural gas provides the leading share of primary energy consumption - is now a possible scenario …
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say that levels of radon in Pennsylvania homes - where 42 percent of readings surpass what the U.S. government considers safe - have been on the rise since 2004, around the time that the fracking industry began drilling natural gas wells in …
In the UK, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has demanded that his alma mater – King’s College London – sell off its fossil fuel shares and Oxford’s former finance director threw his weight behind calls for divestment by helping to take over a university administration building. In the US, Harvard alumni – …
Radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer worldwide. Most indoor exposure occurs by diffusion of soil gas. Radon is also found in well water, natural gas and ambient air. Pennsylvania has high indoor radon concentrations; buildings are often tested during real estate transactions with results reported to the Department …
The UAE could realise billions of dirhams in potential savings if it develops solar energy projects ahead of other sources including natural gas, according to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency. If the UAE can boost its renewable energy capacity to 10 per cent of its total power …
Remaining state-owned electricity assets should be privatised to increase competition and lower power bills, a federal government report recommends. And the Abbott government says it will not support a domestic gas reserve despite its own report acknowledging that demand for Australian gas exports is pushing up prices for households and …
The Guardian Media Group (GMG) is to sell all the fossil fuel assets in its investment fund of over £800m, making it the largest yet known to pull out of coal, oil and gas companies. The decision was justified on both financial and ethical grounds, said Neil Berkett, GMG chair: …
Climate change, we can emphatically say, is a wicked problem This is a real-life story of three wicked problems, one opportunity - and a new way to confront global challenges. Climate change, we can emphatically say, is a wicked problem. It was in 1992 that the world started its formal …
The new gas policy framework caps the subsidy from Power System Development Fund at Rs 3,500 crore in the first year and Rs 4,000 crore in the second year to make costlier imported fuel affordable for stranded gas-fired power plants with a combined capacity of over 4,000 mw. The policy …
