Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The Supreme Court (SC) reserved its verdict on whether a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe should be ordered on Rs 4,500-crore Cogentrix power project in Karnataka. The project was cleared by the Karnataka government. Earlier, the Karnataka High Court had directed a CBI probe into awarding of power projects …
Bloody clashes took place between police and demonstrators, who were protesting against the construction of a new power plant. The new coal-fired power plant was due to be built in Pracuab Khiri Khan province, south of the resort town of Hua Hin, by a us firm Gulf Electric. The clashes …
Nuraicholai, previously a quiet coastal village in Sri Lanka, inhabited by mostly Roman Catholics and Muslims farmers and fisherfolk, has become hot bed of protest. The villagers are opposing governments plan to establish a 900-megawatt power project in their neighbourhood. Residents of Nuraicholai, a rich sweet-water agricultural belt, have formed …
To check the growing abuse of public interest petitions, the Supreme Court has said, "The public must be compensated both for the delay in implementation of the project and the cost escalation resulting from such a delay.' Justice B N Kirpal and Justice Sujata V Manohar, while setting aside a …
FROm next year, us power plants will be forced to test the coal they burn for traces of mercury. The us Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will also require a selected number of plants to test their emissions for the heavy metal. This will help EPA decide whether mercury emissions should …
Catano in Puerto Rico is a small town inhabited by some 35,000 people. But in an ordinary sunny day, hardly any children are seen playing in the streets, and many houses bear a deserted look. Welcome to the poorest and also the most polluted city of the country. Two power …
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court granted an interim stay on the operation of an order of the Karnataka High Court directing the state government to get a first information report (FIR) registered with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for various cognizable offences without naming any person or …
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation of an ambitious 300-megawatt (mw), coal-fired power plant project at Barapukaria in the country's northern district of Dinajpur late last month. This small southeast Asian nation is trying desperately to increase its power output from the current 1,700 mw to make up …
July 1987: Karnataka Power Corpora-tion Limited (kpcl) notifies a 2 x 210 mw coal based Thermal Power Station at Nandikur. August 1987: mef issues guidelines for citing of Thermal Power Plants under epa 1986. 1988- '89: mef rejects the kpcl project on environmental grounds. kpcl exits, handing over the project …
the Supreme Court (sc) has given the go-ahead to the controversial 1,000 mw Cogentrix thermal power plant in Karnataka. The sc dismissed a special leave petition by Janajagrithi Samithi, an environmental group, against a Karnataka high court (hc) judgement. A three-judge sc bench, comprising Chief Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi, Justice …
no more ignoring or dismissing fly ash as just an oxide-rich waste product of the thermal power stations. Going by the claims of a recent international conference held in Delhi, India, fly ash can now be used successfully as a raw material for different industries. Since 60 per cent of …
The first private sector thermal power plant was commissioned recently in Colombo with the help of the government which added an additional 22.5 MW of power to Sri Lanka's national grid. Such efforts of the government is expected to reduce the country's over-dependence on hydro-power. Following the last year severe …
gopinath Munde, deputy chief minister of Maharashtra wriggled out of a much awaited and thrice-postponed public debate between the state government and opponents of the controversial Enron Power Project. "It was an opportunity for the government to publicly debate a contentious and crucial issue. But Munde has gone back on …
the London-based human rights organisation Amnesty International has charged the Indian government with suppressing protests against the us $1.2-billion Enron power project in Dabhol, Maharashtra. In recent months, villagers and activists protesting against the project - on grounds of corruption, displacement and environmental damage - have been subjected to "harassment, …
Flyash, produced in millions of tonnes as a waste by thermal power plants can serve as an excellent soil conditioner, studies at the Central Research Institute, Dhanbad, Bihar, show. The studies confirm that the yield of crops increases by 20-60 per cent on the addition of 25-200 tonnes of flyash …
if a scrubbing technique developed by a us research team turns out well, cleaner coal power may soon be possible. Laboratory experiments show that the method is nearly twice as effective as existing techniques at removing sulphur dioxide, a by-product and one of the gases causing acid rain, and can …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Punjab, Pakistan, has yet to deliver its no. objection certificate to the Islamabad-based Northern Electric Company Limited which plans to build a coal-fired power plant in Choa-Saidan Shah in the Chakwal district. The EPA has asked for mom details on how the company would …
FAST track power projects ha of late, become stages I macting"the theatrics of en ronment politics in India. was first evident this July, wh the Bharatiya Janata Pa (sip)-Shiv Sena government Maharashtra cancelled the t*s-based 2,015 mw Enron project proposed at Dabhol in Ratnagiri district. The target immediately after the …
