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 public sector Gas Authority of India Limited will soon begin work on the 600-km-long pipeline from Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam for supplying liquid natural gas. The total cost of the project is about Rs 3,000 crore.
Offering a sweeping vision of a future in which pollution is conquered and cars run without a "drop of oil or gasoline," U.S. Vice President Al Gore today proposed tax breaks and other incentives for both reducing America's dependence on oil and cleaning up the environment. And he made clear …
European nuclear power could be phased out and emissions of carbon dioxide(CO2) reduced significantly by 2020, a Swedish daily quoted a US research group as saying, on Monday.
European nuclear power could be phased out and emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) reduced significantly by 2020, a Swedish daily quoted a U.S. research group as saying, yesterday. Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet said the International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths (IPSEP) reported more efficient and reduced energy use would speed …
Oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell said yesterday it had appealed against a Nigerian court order to pay an ethnic Ogoni community in the volatile oil-producing Niger Delta four billion naira ($40 million) in compensation for a 1970 oil spill. A court in the southeastern city of Port Harcourt ruled on Friday …
Panchayat Raj and Rural development Minister M Y Ghorpade today said the district level planning committees would be set up soon to chalk out a blueprint for protecting ground water in the state.
putting the genome to work : The human genome is in hand. The set of instructions embodied in the ancient chemical deoxyribonucleic acid, at least 3.5 billion years in the making, has been made fully visible for the first time. The manual with the specifications for the human species comes …
Eleven farmers' organisations have decided to organise State-level dharnas on July 6 demanding the government to reduce power tariff. Dharnas would be organised before Collectorates and mandal offices in the districts.
The Congress Legislature Party leader Y S Rajesekhar Reddy has demanded that the State government enter into a fresh power purchase agreement with GVK power and Spectrum. Reddy told media persons that the State was losing Rs 200 crore annually because of the escalated cost per mega watt of power …
The Australian Government and environmentalists are gearing up for another showdown over the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, after documents identifying fuel at the new plant were tabled in parliament yesterday. The documents showed that spent fuel from the reactor would be well managed, Industry Minister Nick Minchin said. He said …
A wet cycle on the Northern Plains of the United States has caused the Devils Lake to rise nearly 25 feet since 1992. With no outlet in this flat country, the water has spread across tens of thousands of acres, the lake more than doubled in area. Year by year, …
The Union ministry for non-conventional energy sources (MNES) has advised the states to tune their policies as per the guidelines issued by the Centre for encouraging private sector participation in power generation and non-conventional sources.
Eight out of ten people who live in the European countries which have spent nuclear fuel reprocessing contracts with Sellafield (United Kingdom) or La Hague (France) say they want the discharges of radioactive waste into the sea to be stopped and prohibited, according to a series of opinion polls commissioned …
Under fire from Republicans who say hehas no energy plan, Vice President Al Gore will propose on Tuesday an array of economic incentives to encourage cleaner technologies intended to reduce the nation's dependency on foreign oil, aides said today. The aides said Mr. Gore would call for billions of dollars …
Creating the power utility's equivalent of an organic food store, a Connecticut company is to announce Monday that it will begin selling what it calls "green" electricity, generated not from oil or nuclear reactors, but from renewable sources like wind, water and methane gas captured from garbage dumps. Naturally, it …
An explosion ripped through Kuwait's biggest oil refinery Minal-Ahmadi on Sunday, killing three people, injuring over 40 and forcing production to close.
Germany's ruling Social Democrats have hailed the decision by their Green party allies on shutting nuclear power stations as strengthening the "red-green" coalition. The deal negotiated with the big power utilities, which would set a maximum lifespan for power stations of 32 years from the start of commercial production, fell …
In Chicago and Milwaukee, gasolineprices have recently topped $2 a gallon, and the industry says the reason is partly a U.S. government requirement for additives called oxygenates. Experts say these additives may be obsolete and irrelevant, and may even cause environmental damage. The call for oxygenates has always been driven …
