The Union environment ministry is all set to approve the Navi Mumbai international airport. The ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) recommended clearance to the airport on November 10 subject to conditions. It cleared only the aeronautical area (see map) spread over 1,160 hectares (ha) and identified a number of land …
AS MAHARASHTRA government pushes for Navi Mumbai as the only site for Mumbai's second airport, the environment ministry has asked for re-examination of three alternative sites. The ministry's expert appraisal committee (EAC) had expressed concerns over the project, saying it would lead to destruction of 121 hectares (ha) of mangroves, …
OPPOSITION to the Tamil Nadu government's plan to construct a greenfield airport at Sriperumbudur near Chennai is growing. On August 12, around 3,000 people from 26 villages were lathicharged when they staged a demonstration against the project. The reason: the airport plan requires about 1,821 hectares and protestors say most …
This study describes the methodology and results for calculating future global aviation emissions of carbon dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from air traffic under four of the IPCC/SRES (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change/Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) marker scenarios: A1B, A2, B1, and B2. In addition, a mitigation scenario has …
Jhurheri, a village on the fringes of Chandigarh, dreams big as the government acquires land at record rates for an international airport This is among the biggest land compensation rates in India and the villagers know what it means for them
WITH the formal inauguration of the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on the outskirts of Hyderabad on March 14 by United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, India will have its first greenfield airport. Developed on 5,500 acres (1 acre = 0.4 hectare) in Shamshabad at an initial cost of Rs.2,478 crore, …
Acquisition rates have to be responsive to give armers a good information environment With growth, decline in agricultural workforce, literacy and migration, India's urbanisation will increase and require acquisition and "conversion' of land for urban and commercial use. This acquired land will not always be barren land, forests, swamps or …
The congestion in the skies has caught the attention of the high-level committee instituted by the Ministry of Civil Aviation last year. While submitting the "master plan for next generation futuristic air navigation services', the committee headed by former Civil Aviation Secretary Ajay Prasad has recommended that Air Traffic Control …
India has added two more swanky symbols to make it part of the first-world grade: in Hyderabad and the gleaming Bengaluru international airport. But look behind the glitzy fa
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Tuesday said the decision to close existing airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore, after the opening of the new airports, would be reviewed. "As per the contractual agreement, existing airports in the two cities are to be closed, but we will review it,' said the …
U.S. airlines must pay for their carbon dioxide emissions or face a curb on flights to the European Union, the E.U. Transport Commissioner warned on Friday. The green ultimatum was issued by Jacques Barrot as the transatlantic airline market undergoes its biggest shakeup in 30 years when limits on flights …
No respite for the Capital's residents any time of the day: Pollution Control Board Delhiites living in areas that fall under the flight path are exposed to high levels of ambient noise that is well past the limits considered safe for humans, states a Central Pollution Control Board report. A …
By Wg Cdr N K Pant (Retd) Scientists estimate that the effect of aviation emissions on the climate is up to five times the impact of emissions occurring on the ground. The primary gas emitted by jet aircraft engines is carbon dioxide, which, scientists believe, can survive in the atmosphere …
Domestic carriers have decided against hiking fuel surcharge, that presently is Rs 1,650 per passenger, following the latest increase in jet fuel prices for this month. This move comes as March is anyways a lean travel season when airlines offer attractive schemes like low basic fares or discounts to lure …
Some of the major airlines of the world seem to be lately realizing the adverse role of their big passenger jets on climate changes resulting in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the engine-exhausts into the earth's atmosphere. In this context Virgin Atlantic's first flight of a …
Billed as a green fuel breakthrough in the aviation sector, the world's first flight by a commercial airline partly powered by biofuel touched down in Amsterdam today after a three-hour journey from the Heathrow airport here. Virgin Atlantic's Boeing 747 had one of its four engines connected to an independent …
Billed as a green fuel breakthrough in the aviation sector, the world's first flight by a commercial airline partly powered by biofuel touched down in Amsterdam today after a three-hour journey from Heathrow airport here. Virgin Atlantic's Boeing 747 had one of its four engines connected to an independent biofuel …
Campaigners against airport expansion have some new evidence to support their case. A study of 140 people living near four European airports concludes that loud night-time noise raises blood pressure, even when people are asleep.
