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 …
New Delhi A new policy on natural gas allocation for the next 10 years that is under discussion will benefit gas trading companies like Gail India but will make consumers pay more for not only power but also a clutch of industrial goods. It could also upset the government’s plan …
Gas And Oil Production Likely To Increase By End Of 2012 Jaipur: The state government’s talks with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) have reached an advanced stage for setting up a refinery at Barmer oilfields. The long pending demand of the Rajasthan government to have its first refinery in …
Country Energy (Pvt) Ltd which is a subsidiary of Vallibel Power Erathna Plc has now commenced the commercial operations of their 4.65mw mini hydro power project at the Kiriwaneliya in the Nuwara - Eliya district. Vallibel Power Erathna Plc Head of Finance Yogesh Suriyapperuma told Daily News Business that,the company …
Tighter regulation, bountiful natural gas and declining installation costs for renewable energy herald the end of America’s coal era A FREIGHT train, its dozen cars loaded with coal covered in a light dusting of snow, snaked through the narrow valley, sometimes following the two-lane highway and sometimes crossing it. The …
EGoM likely to meet in the second week of February With the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) likely to meet in the second week of February to discuss issues related to the allocation of gas, the Power Ministry has decided to ask the EGoM to direct Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries …
Adjusting to shifts in the economy, states in the cap-and-trade system known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have slashed the number of allowances that electric power companies can buy to offset their emissions. The decision, made last week, was intended to shore up the pioneering program as it undergoes …
Agartala: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will set up a Rs 5,000 crore, gas-based fertilizer plant in Tripura to meet the growing shortage of urea, the most commonly used soil manure in the northeastern region. “ONGC has already initiated the process to set up the natural gas-based urea …
India and Pakistan today agreed in-principle to have a uniform transit fee for ferrying natural gas through the proposed $7.6 billion pipeline from Turkmenistan. India will pay a transit fee to Pakistan and Afghanistan for getting its share of 38 million standard cubic metres per day of gas through the …
Essar Oil rose after the company said on Monday that its coal-bed methane block at Raniganj, West Bengal holds an estimated 113 billion cubic feet of gas reserves. The result category for gas reserves at Raniganj had nothing earlier, said a company spokesperson. The company said that the current production …
After a long wait for government approval, Reliance Industries (RIL) is to begin work on development of four satellite fields—D-2, D-6, D-19 and D-22—in India’s largest gas field, block D6 in the Krishna-Godavari basin, or KG-D6 . In an investor presentation on Friday, RIL said it would start engineering surveys …
Close on the heels of the PMO stepping in to play a direct role in sorting out the fuel woes faced by coal-fired power project developers, a much-delayed ministerial panel meeting on gas allocations to upcoming projects is slated to take place later this month. The meeting of the empowered …
Pulok Chatterjee to head panel deadline set for specific targets The promoters of private power companies, including Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday and sought solutions to problems like acute fuel shortage, coal prices, delays in green clearances and funding. Singh assured them a …
The Oil Ministry has suggested key changes in the natural gas allocation policy in the view of sharp drop in output from Reliance Industries’ eastern offshore KG-D6 block. In a note to the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the ministry has proposed to stop …
Shell and Total, operators of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Hazira in Gujarat, have decided to take the terminal's annual capacity to 10 million tonnes per annum (mtpa). The terminal at present operates at a capacity of 3.6 million tonne (mt). By 2013, this would be expanded to …
‘Governments snatching lands without consent of gram sabhas' Noted social activist Medha Patkar has alleged that indiscriminate acquisition of farm and forest lands by the governments in the name of development without the approval of the ‘gram sabhas' concerned amounted to snatching the livelihood of weaker sections, mainly Adivasis. Ms. …
MUMBAI: A steep fall in natural gas production at Reliance Industries' D6 block in KG basin and scarcity of retail outlets are hampering growth of compressed natural gas as a fuel of choice in private vehicle segment. Despite an increasing price differential between CNG ( 31- 32) - the cheapest …
Federal regulators are considering retesting water supplies at a small town in Pennsylvania that residents say have been contaminated by natural gas drilling. Just a month after declaring water in Dimock safe, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency are taking another look after new evidence provided by residents suggested that …
China is considering a proposal to create an energy “super-ministry” as part of a sweeping cabinet reshuffle in 2013, two independent sources said, a step that would help Beijing impose its will on an industry beset by bureaucratic infighting. The new ministry would replace the National Energy Administration (NEA), China’s …
‘Controversial decisions' prompted by regulator The decision to allow Reliance Industries (RIL) to retain the entire 7,645 sq km KG-D6 block in violation of contractual obligations was based on the advice of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), the Petroleum Ministry has told the Public Accounts Committee. Pointing a finger …
A team from Maharashtra Natural Gas Ltd (MNGL) took a boat ride on the Mula river on Wednesday afternoon to inspect the earthen road constructed by them, which was obstructing boating activity of the College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP). The MNGL team’s visit follows DNA’s report (Dec 28; ‘MNGL road …
