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 …
In some countries, that share a border, a bridge or a tunnel, the difference in the price of gas can be as much as $1.80 a gallon as in the case of Britain, where fuel can cost $5.50 a gallon - or more than 75 cents a gallon in the …
Establishing a dump for medium-level nuclear waste in South Australia must be put to a referendum, State Opposition environment spokesman John Hill said yesterday.Mr Hill said he was confident the result of such a vote would send a clear message to the Federal Government that a medium-level nuclear waste dump …
The Delhi government's Minister for Food and Supplies, Dr Yoganand Shastri, has said the current energy demand of the country be met with non-conventional energy resources. He was speaking at the National Training Programme on Motivation and Leadership Requirements for popularising non-conventional energy technologies.
The Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr. T.R. Baalu, has said that funds for soil and water conservation measures in new afforestation projects would be hiked by at least 10 per cent.
Farmers and ranchers in the United States are discovering that they own not only land but also the wind rights that go with that land. A farmer in Iowa who leases a quarter acre of crop land to the local utility as a site for a wind turbine can typically …
Ukraines's decision to name the day the ill-fated Chernobyl power plant will shut is most welcome. The announcement of the December 15 closure date, made during a visit by US president Bill Clinton, is good news for millions of Europeans, including many Ukrainians, who have lived in fear of Chernobyl …
With U.S. support, the World Bank is expected to approve a $3.5 billion project to develop an oil pipeline in Chad and Cameroon in West Africa, despite widespread concerns about the potential for corruption and environmental damage.
Operators of inactive oil and gas wells and some low-producing ones would have to put up bonds or letters of credit under a plan that was given preliminary approval today by Texas regulators. The plan requires bonds of $3 for every foot of depth for wells on land, $60,000 for …
The closure of a second reactor at Swedish nuclear power plant Barseback by 2001 will lead to raised imports of oil and electricity, increasing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), two consultancy firms reported yesterday. "It seems inevitable that some of the power losses (from a close) will be replaced by …
If the Central Ground Water Authority gives it the go ahead, the Delhi Government will soon be harvesting nine million cubic metres of rainwater, in the Outer Delhi areas close to the Najafgarh Drain. All set to take off, it is a project for on-channel storage of water, including a …
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said on Monday that the Chernobyl power pplant, scene of the world's worst civil nuclear disaster in 1986, would be closed down on December 15.
The majority of the unelectrified population in Nepal does not have access to a permanent water source from which they could generate electricity. However, human power is universally available and is quite applicable if only a small wattage is required. Several groups like the Nepal Light Project led by Professor …
The High Court directing the Karnataka Power Transmission Corportion Ltd (KPTCL) to extend escrow cover of Rs 880 crores to the 220 MW Tannirbhavi Power Project is a setback to the Government.
Beleaguered British Nuclear Fuels admitted breaching safety regulations at its north-west England reprocessing plant, dealing a further blow to the company's reputation. Three men suffered burns last March when 7m3 of concentrated nitric acid leaked on to them from a valve at the solvent treatment plant at the Sellafield site.
Scientists are warning that the biggest hole in the ozone layer over the northern hemisphere will appear this spring. It is likely to trigger public alerts against going out in the sun without protective clothing across Europe.
A regional bloc of African states has thrown its weight behind a controversial oil extraction and pipeline project in Chad which environmentalists oppose. The 11-strong Community of Sahelian-Saharan States (CED-SAD) adopted a resolution backing the project at a two-day meeting in the country's capital N'Djamena which ended on Saturday evening. …
Travelling by bus, bicycle or on foot, millions of Italians reclaimed the traffic-plagued streets of their historic city centres on Sunday as cars were banned for the day in a fight against pollution. Some 150 cities and small towns joined an initiative by the Environment Ministry worried about the levels …
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said that his department would provide $75 million in research grants to develop clean fuels and better pollution control devices for cars and trucks. The research money is part of the Clinton administration's efforts to cut sulphur levels in gasoline. Sulphur reduces the effectiveness of …
The Rajasthan government has adopted a special promotion policy for generating electricity from wind energy which is expected to bring in private investment up to Rs. 500 crores in this sector in three years.
