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 …
The sharp increase in petrol prices in the past year has revved up demand for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), which works out 70% cheaper, and triggered a rush of customers in installing kits to run their cars on the low-cost fuel.
From pricing to allocation, natural gas is one sector that is always into controversies - and L Mansingh knows it well. The chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, in an interview, shares his views regarding the potential, controversies and pricing of the fuel.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests constituted a committee under the Chairmanship of Shri J.M. Mauskar, Special Secretary to Government of India vide Office Order No.J-11013/30/2009-IA.II (I) (Pt.) dated 14th December, 2009 to examine the issues relating to monitoring of projects. The mandate of the committee was as follows: To …
The main cause of the natural gas pipeline rupture in San Bruno, Calif., that killed eight people and burned three dozen houses last September was 54 years of bad management by the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and state and federal regulators who did not notice the problem, the National …
Not since the grim period after World War II has Germany had significant blackouts, but it is now bracing for that possibility after shutting down half its nuclear reactors practically overnight. Nuclear plants have long generated nearly a quarter of Germany’s electricity. But after the tsunami and earthquake that sent …
It is hard to think of more awkward country in which to drill for gas than the craggy, creviced hillsides that rise up from the banks of China’s turbid Yellow River in the northern province of Shanxi, the heart of China’s northern coal belt. So steep are the sides of …
Denmark and its self-governing dependency of Greenland plan to present a seabed claim extending to the North Pole before the end of 2014 against competing claims from other Arctic states, Danish officials said on Monday. Ownership of the Arctic seabed has grown in importance as the shrinking of sea ice …
JAISALMER: Focus Energy Limited, an independent oil and gas exploration and development company, has found huge reserves of gas in the two new wells dug at the "RJ-ON/6" onshore block in the Shahgarh bulge area here. Gas was found at an approximate depth of 3,000 m in one well, and …
Soon consumers may have to shell out more money for water and electricity apart from cooking gas, kerosene and diesel, if the Planning Commission has its way. The panel’s deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said that since import dependence would continue in the coming years, there was a need …
U.S. emissions of the main greenhouse gas rebounded nearly 4 percent last year as factories ran harder while the economy recovered and as consumers boost air conditioning during the hot summer, the government said on Thursday. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of oil, coal and natural gas, which …
Fuel leaked from Enterprise Products Partners' natural gas liquids pipeline into the Missouri River in Iowa has dissipated or evaporated with little chance of recovery, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Tuesday. The leak sprung in a 10 mile stretch of Enterprise's Conway North 33,600-barrels-per-day pipeline, which extends …
Atmospheric levels of methane, 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat, stayed steady for two decades to 2006 on wider fertilizer use to grow rice or a surge in natural gas demand, according to two separate studies in the journal Nature. Climate researcher Fuu Ming Kai …
National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) is preparing a feasibility report of a $7.5 billion Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline Project. The consultancy services agreement for stage 1 of the project has been signed between the Inter State Gas System (Pvt) Limited (ISGSL) Pakistan and a joint venture of NESPAK and ILF Beratende …
The top court in the Netherlands on Monday ordered the suspension of the Bergermeer gas storage project, the largest in Europe, citing objections by environmentalists and local residents who fear earth tremors. The storage project, along with the soon-to-be-completed liquefied natural gas terminal in Rotterdam, is an important part of …
THE juxtaposition of “gas” and “boom” conjures misfortune: mining disasters, Zeppelins in flame and the like. But the gas boom that the world is currently experiencing is a conflagration to be celebrated. The development of previously unexploitable shale gas as a resource in America and other countries, and the growth …
New Delhi A group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday recommended bringing urea, a commonly used fertiliser, under the nutrient-based policy, raise its price by 10% immediately and partially decontrol the commodity from the next fiscal. Even after the price decontrol, there will be some …
The Committee on Policy for Pooling of Natural Gas Prices and Pool Operating Guidelines was asked to examine the procedure for discovery of gas price. While refraining from suggesting a viable scheme for pooling of gas prices, it has focused its attention on preferential allocation of domestically produced natural gas …
The environmental impact assessment reports comprising of the terrestrial component b M/s Enkay Enviro Services Pvt. Ltd and the marine component by Indomer Coastal Hydraulics (P) Ltd., Chennai, under the overall coordination of BMT Consultants India Pvt. Limited. The purpose of this report is to establish the environmental feasibility of …
GUWAHATI, July 26 – The crisis faced by the State’s power sector today due to the rise in the prices of natural gas has its genesis in the hike effected in the natural gas price by the Union Government for the Reliance Industry-owned Krishna-Godavari (KG) Basin gas to $ 4.20 …
