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 …
Scientists in Portland, Ore., report that they have inserted a foreign gene into a monkey egg, fertilized the egg and produced a baby monkey with the added gene in its cells. The scientists say they believe that this is the first time researchers have used techniques of genetic engineering to …
The process of cutting trees in the Neriya Reserve Forest to lay the HPCL pipeline has started and hundreds have already been felled in the area, according to the initial reports. The Anti-HPCL Pipeline Committee, Dakshina Kannada Parisarasakta Okkoota, Nagarika Seva Trust and Mahila Vedike have decided to a stage …
The CBI is to examine a technical expert in the 'Ramar Pillai-herbal fuel case' on January 17, on which date trial commences in the court of the X Metropolitan Magistrate, Mr. R. Krishnamurthy.
British Nuclear Fuels' efforts to win vital atomic fuel supply contracts from Japan are hanging on the outcome of a government dispute over the future of its new mixed oxide fuel (Mox) plant in north-west England.
Five years from now, India's most ambitious, Rs 6,000-crore Tarapur Atomic Power Project (Phases 3&4) will go criticial, producing 500 MW of electricity per phase. But the predicament of the villagers stuated on the edge of this reactor has already turned "critical".The paddy fields at Akkarpatti and Pophran villages have …
Government has fixed the target of providing electricity to 80,000 villages during the 10th five year plan for which the high-powered inter-ministerial group is deliberating on ways especially with regard to financial options. The GoM headed by K C Pant, deputy chairman of Planning Commission, which met here last night, …
Plans were announced today for the world's largestwind farm, 450 windmills along the Oregon-Washington border that will generate enough electricity for 70,000 homes in 13 Western states.Construction will begin next month and could be completed by Dec. 31.
Only the technology is missing: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is going ahead with a project to convert the city's garbage into electricity though it has not working knowledge of the technology used for the process.
China launched a spacecraft carrying animals and microbes into orbit around the Earth, taking a significant step forward in its quest to join the United States and Russia as the only nations to send humans into space.
Oil companies, conservation groups and Alaska native communities squared off before a panel of scientists in Anchorage, Alaska over two days this week, presenting clashing visions of the impact of expanding oil and gas drilling on the country's Arctic frontier-Alaska's North Slope.
Concessions won from electricity generators at a White House summit meeting have provided more time for negotiators to find an answer to California's power crunch.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) has made important findings of gas reserves in South India. The company will carry out extensive exploration in coastal areas of Kochi, Quillon and Thiruvananthapurm said Dr Avinash Chandra, Director General Hydrocarbon on Wednesday.
Rajasthan's wind power policy has finally started attracting private entrepreneurs. The Indore-based Kalani Industries Ltd has become the first company to be permitted by the state government to setup a wind power project.
More and more Pakistani car owners are fitting the CNG adaptors in their cars as the governmetn encourages a switch to the 'green fuel' to reduce urban air pollution and the country's oil import bill.
The Narmada Bachao Andolan(NBA) leader, Ms. Medha Patkar, along with nearly 40 NBA activists was today arrested when they barged into the Chief Minister's bungalow.They were later released on bail.
Burma has suspended the constrction of a controversial dam on a border-river after an exchange of gunfire with Bangladesh troops, Bangladesh security officials said on Tuesday.
Japan's government announced on Tuesday plans to complete the deregulation of the nation's oil refining industry, saying the move would encourage more foreign participation in the struggling sector.
Two major partners in Maharashtra's coalition Government - the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party - did not reach an agreement on the handling of the Enron-sponsored Dabhol Power Company's project.
Oil companies, conservation groups and Alaska Native communities squared off before a panel of scientists here over two days this week, presenting clashing visions of the impact of expanding oil and gas drilling on the country'sArctic frontier, Alaska's North Slope.
