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 …
Provincial Minister for Housing Amjid Khan Afridi has said that Rs200 million has been released for providing electricity to several villages located along Rawalpindi road in his constituency. Speaking at a public meeting in Razgeer Banda here on Tuesday, Mr Afridi said that Rs140 million had been released from the …
Global exploitation of shale gas reserves could transform the world's energy supply by lowering prices, improving security and curbing carbon dioxide emissions, but the industry might be stopped in its tracks if it doesn't work harder to resolve environmental concerns, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. The IEA's report shows …
People hit hard by the recent sharp increase in the price of petrol have been given some relief by the Delhi Government as it announced an exemption of Value Added Tax on the increased amount in the Delhi Budget which was presented on Monday. This will effectively lower the price …
Energy policy in the United Kingdom looks like a jam factory hit by a meteorite: a multicoloured pool of gloop studded with broken glass. Consider these two press releases, issued by the Department of Energy and Climate Change last week. Tuesday: the government's new energy bill will help the UK …
Needed, it says, for covering its return and risks also wants govt to stick to contract on output sharing Stuck with $4.2 a million British thermal units (mBtu) price for its natural gas till 2014, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has sought from the government an import-parity price for sale of …
Reaching out to Myanmar as it tries to end 50 years of isolation and reduce dependence on ally China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived this evening in capital Naypyidaw. He will be holding key talks tomorrow with President U Thein Sein who, as the head of a quasi-civilian government, has …
The energy industry and Stephen Harper’s government try to ensure tar-sands oil gets to market. At first glance, the public hearing of Canada’s National Energy Board that began on May 23rd involves only a minor matter. Enbridge, an energy distributor, wants permission to reverse the flow of Line 9, a …
11th plan target could not be met due to environmental problems The Planning Commission and Power Ministry are believed to have reached a consensus over fixing the capacity addition target at 90,000 MW for the next five years. Earlier, Power Ministry had proposed a target of adding 76,000 MW in …
India on Wednesday signed the gas sale purchase agreement (GSPA) for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) gas pipeline, which upon completion would diversify its gas basket. With domestic gas output stagnating, the $7.6-billion Tapi gas project provides a ray of hope. In five years, the country would have access to imported natural …
New Delhi: Kicking-off work on the long discussed US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, India and its new energy partners on Wednesday signed agreements that will pave way for laying of the 1,680-km line. Turkmenistan — which holds more than 4% of the world’s natural gas reserves signed agreements to sell gas …
Turkmenistan agreed on Wednesday to supply natural gas to Pakistan and India in deals that offer major economic benefits but depend on building and defending a US-backed pipeline across chronically unstable Afghanistan. The route, particularly the 735-km leg through the Afghan provinces of Herat and Kandahar, will need billions of …
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, may finally be getting serious about overcoming the technical and financial hurdles for tapping its other main resource: sunshine. Thousands of solar power panels have sprung up across Europe over the past few years, thanks to generous subsidies that make the technology an …
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil-fuel combustion rose by 3.2 percent last year to a record high of 31.6 gigatonnes, the IEA said in preliminary estimates released on Thursday. China made the biggest contribution to the global rise, seeing its emissions increase by 9.3 percent, the Paris-based International …
Turkmenistan on Wednesday signed agreements with India and Pakistan to deliver gas through a new pipeline that will transit Afghanistan, the first contracts in the ambitious project. The 1,700-kilometre (1,050-mile) TAPI pipeline aims to transport more than 30 billion cubic metres of gas annually from Turkmenistan to energy-hungry consumers in …
In response to demands from companies engaged in extracting coal bed methane (CBM) for a single operator who would work the CBM blocks, an inter-ministerial panel has asked the petroleum secretary GC Chaturvedi to prepare a note on best practices for the sector in areas where oil and gas finds …
Bangladesh has discovered oil in two old gas fields in the country's northeastern region with an extractable reserve worth $5.5 billion, the chairman of state-owned Petrobangla said Monday. Hussain Monsur told AFP the two finds at Kailashtila and Sylhet contain proven reserves of 137 million barrels of low sulphur crude …
The U.K. government Tuesday published its long-awaited draft Energy Bill, which contains mechanisms and incentives designed to encourage some GBP110 billion investment in low-carbon energy such as offshore wind and new nuclear power stations. With around a quarter of the U.K.'s power generating capacity closing by the end of the …
EGoM fixed the price for 5 years and it needs to decide on RIL’s revision demand, says Vahanvati The government’s top law officer has said deciding on revising the price of gas from the D6 field of the Krishna-Godavari (KG-D6) basin before April 2014 is a matter of policy, not …
Farmers of 60 hamlets in the 10 revenue villages in Tiruchengode taluk through which the Cochin to Bangalore gas pipeline is being laid have opposed the works. A ‘Vivasayegal Valvathara Pathugapu Kuzhu' (Farmer's Livelihood Protection Committee) to protect the interest of farmers who will be affected by the project, was …
Uzbekistan has signed a deal with a consortium of foreign banks to obtain loans worth a total of $2.54 billion to build a gas and chemicals complex on its Surgil field, state oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz said. Uzbekneftegaz said in a statement the signing ceremony had taken place in …
