The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
The pro-reforms chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu, appears to be upset by the fact that some of the district collectors still have doubts about the implementation of the water harvesting scheme - Neeru-Meeru - initiated about a year back.
Narmada Bachao Andolan leaders Medha Patkar and Arundhati Roy have reason to rejoice. President K. R. Narayanan indirectly endorsed their cause in his Republic Day-eve address to the nation.
A 20-ton cargo of mercury from the United States that was bound for India has apparently been halted in Egypt, at least for the time being, government officials and environmental activists said.
The Chennai State Government has constituted Palar and Tamiraparani River Basin Management and Development Boards. The bodies will take all decisions regarding the development and management of water resources in the two basins.
Taiwan's fourth nuclear plant is causing fresh trouble for President Chen Shui-bian. As recently as November his administration's decision to scrap the plant's construction triggered a constitutional crisis, culminating in a failed push to have him ousted.
The Union Cabinet today permitted the Enron Power Development Corporation to increase is stake in the Dabhol power project in Maharashtra since the other major partner, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board(MSEB), has expressed its inability to pick up quity in the second phase of the project.
Norwegian conservationists issued on Tuesday a formal complaint to the Oil and Energy Ministry in a bid to prevent the planned development of a wind farm in western parts of the country.The Norwegian Society for the Prevention of Ancient Monuments (NSPAM) said it wanted to stop state power company Statkraft's …
US Senate Republicans will unveil a bill next month mapping out a broad strategy for the nation's energy crunch that will include opening an Alaska wildlife refuge for drilling and letting autos powered by alternative fuels use rush-hour commuter lanes, a congressional aide said on Tuesday.The bill, to be sponsored …
US oil refiners said Tuesday they will sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to change new green diesel rules they say are too strict and threaten consumers with shortages and high prices.The rules released last month by former President Bill Clinton's administration are aimed at lessening particles spewed by diesel …
Cairn Energy Plc has made a third hydrocarbon discovery on block CB-OS/2 off Gujarat, located about six kilometres south east of the earlier Lakshmi gas discovery.
Pakistan has decided to establish a nuclear regulatory authority for regulating and supervising matters relating to nuclear safety and radiation protection measures. An Ordinance promulgated by the Pakistan President, Mr. Rafiq Tarar, on Monday night is seen as a response to concerns from the West and the environmental groups on …
The Tenth five-year plan (2002-07) will focus on large scale public investment in power transmission, according to the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission K C Pant. He said that while the quantum of investment cannot be specified now, the approach will be to ensure that more money is spent …
Last Thursday, the gurdwara in Daroli village of Patiala district was converted into a place of protest. One hundred agitated villagers met to decide their future, the future of their land, their village. Daroli has been chosen as the site for a nuclear power plant and villagers have already launched …
The government of Rajasthan has committed itself to improving the efficiency of its power sector through a $ 180 million loan for the Rajasthan Power Sector Restructureing Project anounced recently by the World Bank.
Britain's House of Lords backed new government rules to allow limited cloning of human embryos, turning a deaf ear to religious leaders from across the spectrum who had urged them to oppose the measures.
President Bush agreed today to extend for two weeks federal orders that require power producers to sell surplus electricity and natural gas to California. But his administration warned the state that it would have to resolve the crisis on its own after that.
The Centre today cleared the seventh unit of the Raichur Thermal Power Station (RTPS) from the techno-economic angle paving the way for the work on the coal-based plant to surge forward.
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, has requested the centre to declare Inchampally and Polavaram projects on the river Godavari as national projects and take up their implementation under a time-bound programme. The two projects involve technical, environmental and inter-State matters.
The World Bank has finally stopped the disbursement of fund to Saidabad Water Treatment Plant of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority throwing this 750 crore Taka project into a state of total uncertainty.
DOE announced the adoption of new energy efficiency standards for residential central air conditioners and heat pumps, clothes washers and water heaters, and for commercial heating and cooling equipment in US.
