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 …
Notices issued to Centre, DGH, CBI, Reliance and Niko on a few petitions The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre, DGH, CBI, Reliance and Niko on a few petitions raising the issue of KG basin gas pricing and related issues. The bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam asked …
THE McCoy Elkhorn mining complex straddles the border of Pike and Floyd counties in eastern Kentucky. It has underground and surface mines, as well as coal-processing plants and a section of freight rail lines, onto which mined coal can be directly loaded. If you pull to the side of Airport …
As per the existing thermal power policy, the thermal power plants have to contribute six paise to the fund for every unit of power sold outside the state In a bid to pull investment proposals from gas-based developers in power sector, the state energy department is planning to exempt them …
The statutory auditor is also looking into the pricing of gas produced from RIL's D1 and D3 fields The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is likely to pull up the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), as well as Reliance Industries, over an alleged hoarding of gas by the …
Says state transport undertakings may soon get subsidised diesel Making a partial U-turn on the recently-introduced policy of a dual-pricing system for diesel, Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily on Tuesday said the government might soon supply subsidised diesel to state transport undertakings (STUs). In January, the government had decided that …
Bids invited based on production-linked multiple; company quoting the highest multiple to become preferred bidder Amid controversy surrounding the allocation of coal blocks to private companies, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for new allocation policies that would govern the auctioning of coal reserves and shale gas acreages …
Power plants already in operation in the United States will not be required to be retrofitted with equipment to capture carbon emissions, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday. Agency chief Gina McCarthy addressed concerns raised after the EPA on Friday announced the first regulations setting strict …
Seeks answers from Petroleum Ministry on IPI, TAPI and India-Bangladesh-Myanmar gas pipeline. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has sought answers from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry over the inadequate progress made in execution of transnational pipeline projects including the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline, the TAPI gas pipeline and the …
Reducing fossil-fuel emissions to safer levels would save millions of lives annually by the end of the century, a study said on Sunday. The estimate is based on a simulation of levels of two big pollutants, fine particulate matter and ozone, from coal, oil and gas. The researchers led by …
Tata Power gets nod for site change The task force on power in Odisha has cleared the decks for establishment of a 423 Mw gas-based power project, the first of its kind in the state, at an investment of Rs 3,106 crore. The proposal has come from JGreen Power Pvt …
Global energy politics - a presentation by Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director-General, CSE at "CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013" being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
Natural gas leaks from production wells are lower than previous estimates and below the level that would erase the fuel’s climate benefit over coal, according to a University of Texas study backed by both industry and environmentalists. The study being released on Monday, the first to use actual measurements of …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs is likely to take up on Thursday the Power Ministry’s proposal for a Rs.11,000 crore subsidy payout to cover the hiked electricity tariffs on account of the proposed price pooling of gas. This will help kick-start about 18,000 MW of gas-based projects. The Power …
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, trying to win U.S. backing for the Keystone XL pipeline, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama proposing joint action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector, CBC News said on Friday. The White House has not responded to the …
UK shale gas exploration would have a "similar" carbon footprint to other fossil fuels, according to a new study. A report for the Department of Environment and Climate Change (Decc) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions would be similar to home-grown gas but lower than imported gas or coal. Shale gas …
The government auditor wants to know steps taken to ensure that the firm delivers gas at $4.2 mbtu The Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is in for more trouble as the Comptroller and Auditor-General has questioned the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry over the recent gas price increase and …
Plant expected to be commissioned in three years at a cost of Rs.3 crore per mega watt The Kerala State Electricity Board has set in motion the process of setting up a 350-475-MW combined cycle power generation facility at Brahmapuram using natural gas as the feedstock. In combined cycle power …
All that is required in many a case is final letter from ministry which is not being given, govt sources say. While on the one hand efforts are being made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram to push investment in the face of an economic crisis, …
The CAG has said the technical reports have indicated that the operator has not fulfilled its obligation on well drilling. The Comptroller and Auditor General has asked the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) to explain the steps taken by it to ensure that Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) complies …
Contracts to be awarded in the next few months: Chairman A host of contracts for the five million tonne per annum liquefied natural gas terminal proposed in Ennore are to be awarded over the next few months with Indian Oil Corporation, which is setting up the project, deciding to go …
