Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Flaring concern: Nigeria's rural communities affected by gas-flaring recently filed a lawsuit in the federal High Court in Benin city to make oil giants Shell, Exxon, Chevron and Total desist from the illegal practice. The Nigerian government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation have also been named in the case, …
the move to get Bangalore's autorikshaws to install liquefied petroleum gas (lpg) retrofitted tanks has run into trouble. Auto drivers and oil companies seem to have reached a stalemate over the provision of gas stations. The former say they are ready to install these tanks but there aren't enough gas …
Conservationists have disapproved as inadequate a recent move by oil major Shell to protect the western grey whales along the eastern shore of Russia's Sakhalin Island. Shell announced on March 30, 2005 that it will not route its multibillion-dollar oil pipeline through the whales' feeding ground. The pipeline will be …
Prem Chand Goyal, proprietor, BR Oil Mills in Bharatpur, Rajasthan is usually quite a phlegmatic character. But any talk of his trade is enough to ruffle his placid exterior. "My unit can crush 1,000 sacks of mustard seeds every day, but it is functioning at only half its capacity,' he …
The Indian government has permitted the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc) and the Indian Oil Corporation (ioc) to buy assets of Russian oil giant Yukos. Yukos is currently reeling under crisis. Its chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky was recently detained for fraud and tax evasion. Its shares have dropped and …
staple shortage: Cambodia is faced with a severe drought that could lead to a shortage of rice, the country's staple food. "Some provinces will face a shortage of rice in the coming months,' Nhim Vanda, chairman of Cambodia's national disaster committee, was quoted as saying . "We are working with …
Mauritius-based Galana Petroleum company has been put to trial in Madagascar for causing pollution. The trial began on November 16, 2004. Galana's oil refinery is charged with contaminating water sources and air in Toamasina, the island's second-largest city housing about 200,000 people. The Madagascar government is demanding damages but the …
What happens if political ambition clashes with business interest? Bolivia would know. The country is witnessing a growing disapproval of oil companies and President Carlos Mesa is desperate to maintain his popularity. Encouraged by a recent referendum on gas exports, Mesa's government is drafting a new hydrocarbons bill that has …
A nation characterised by military coups has chosen the ballot over the the bullet in a bid to settle a crucial national issue. On July 18, Bolivian president S
• Oil companies exploring for gas in Saudi Arabia will henceforth have to submit environmental impact studies before they are allowed to commence operations. The head of the country's Presidency of Meteorology and Environmental Protection revealed that no factory
overriding powers: The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will now have the authority to overrule state government decisions on what would be the
What looked like a boon has turned into a nightmare for the 130 farming families in the Caucasus village of Khaishi, Georgia. They feel cheated out of the us $330,000 that an oil company owed them for using their land to lay a 1,600-kilometre-long pipeline. The reason: the village head …
Towards the end of 2001, as part of an ongoing public interest litigation on air pollution in Delhi, the apex court took notice of the ugly business of adulteration. It has repeatedly pointed out the merit of the CNG programme in culling this menace. But the Union of India, in …
A wide variety of low priced fuels and solvents in the market are an immediate enticement to greed. High taxes on petrol make it vulnerable to adulteration with cheap solvents and naphtha. Diesel is easily mixed with subsidised kerosene and cheaper LDO. Says Rita Pandey, Fellow, National Institute of Public …
When Faridabad resident Rajendra Dhankar's eight-month-old Santro began to belch white smoke like a run-down truck, he rushed to the vehicle's manufacturer, Hyundai. What had caused the engine to so wheeze was heavily adulterated fuel. The company replaced the piston and the ring. Dhankar's car was as good as new …
• Halliburton, the us -based oil firm contracted by the us government to carry out reconstruction in Iraq, has asked its employees to contact newspapers and lawmakers to counter criticism of the company's no-bid contract in Iraq. In a memo titled "Defending Our Company,' Halliburton's president, Dave Lesar, said "Now …
How can one conserve a wildlife sanctuary better? By flagrantly trespassing on one part of it. Then picking up the tab for planting trees on another in recompense. This is precisely the logic underlying a petition filed by Essar Oil Limited in the Supreme Court (sc). The case, scheduled to …
Multinational oil giants Chevron Texaco Oil Company, Shell and Total Fina Elf have shut down operations in Nigeria's trouble-torn southern Delta region. The companies estimate that the disruptions have reduced Nigeria's daily oil output by about 30 per cent. The country is the world's sixth largest oil exporter. Dozens of …
