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 …
need for a thorough review: Today, the Mahakali treaty has run into rough weather over its implementation, while the Indo-Bangla accord on the Ganga, say experts, has ended in constant bickering, but none of the treaties addresses the basic environmental concern of depleting water resources.
To promote the use of source of non-conventional energy among people in the rural areas, the Punjab government has decided to give 500 solar tubewell connections to the farmers. Each connection costs Rs 35,000. Officials sources said that only those farmers would be eligible for getting the solar tubewell connection …
An experiment project to generate energy from flowers and panchamrat offerings to Lord Mahakal has been devised in Madhya Pradesh, with the blessings of the Union Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources.
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder reaffirmed his government's intention to end the use of nuclear power in Germany even as the conservative opposition pledged new moves to block the phaseout. Schroeder has given power companies until the summer to negotiate a schedule to shut down Germany's 19 nuclear power plants.
The cost of cleaning up the America's Hanford nuclear reservation's highly radioactive nuclear waste storage tanks has jumped to $15.2 billion-more than twice the original estimate, the contractor estimated Monday. Earlier this month, the BNFL Inc. had offered a nearly $13 billion estimate, up from an initial price tag of …
Surendranagar district collector Prakash Shah has ordered an inquiry into the alleged contamination of water in several places. These allegations have been made at a time when there is a sharp rise in the number of people getting affected by waterborne diseases.
The South African government's decision to power the country's new-generation taxi fleet with diesel fuel has been criticised as a major "lost opportunity" to reduce air pollution. The Wildlife and Environment Society said that it supported all initiatives aimed at improving public transport, but that it was alarmed that the …
Anti-nuclear activists are reaching a village named Sanawada on Sunday, 50 km from India's nuclear site to formulate strategy against a likely dumping ground for nuclear waste. A meeting has been organised in the village and activitists will share their international experience of dumping of nuclear waste.
The ambitious People's Biodiversity Regisry (PBR) prepared by the Ernakulam district panchayat is in jeopardy, thanks to the reluctance of the grama panchayats to take up follow-up programmes.The Ernakulam PBR was the first of its kind in the country which detailed the bioassets of 884 wards in the 86 grama …
Ministers fear more than half the British coal industry could disappear within two to three years despite the $159m aid scheme announced by Stephen Byers, chief trade and industry minister. The two-year package aims to help the ailing British coal industry adapt to the lifting of restrictions later this year …
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association International Ltd (NRECAI) of the US has offered to help Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) and Power Finance Corporation (PFC) in evolving a bankable rural electrification (RE) model which could be posed before either domestic or overseas funding agencies.
The 210 MW coal-based thermal power plant at Panipat is unlikely to start commercial production before next March-- more than five years behind the stipulated schedule.
Wiebo Ludwig, a former preacher who began an environmental crusade against the oil and gas industry from remote Alberta commune in Canada, has been convicted of vandalizing two gas wells and conspiring to obtain explosives. Mr. Ludwig had become a hero to environmentalists and other people living near gas wells …
Several attempts to extinguish the fire in the oil well of Bobi Oil failed, on Thursday, after its intensification marked the 16th day.The experts from Singapore changed the direction of the fire upwards, the reports said, by digging a shaft to control the fire soon.
The first step towards conceptualising a nuclear power project for Bengal has been taken with the Nuclear Power Corporation writing to the state government about selection of a site.
IBP, the stand-alone oil marketing PSU, has written to the ministry of petroleum and natural gas that it wants a quick exit from the Rs 2,600 crore Numalaigarh refinery, Assam, where it has a 19 per cent stake.
Southern Energy Asia-Pacific Ltd, formerly Consolidated Electric Power Asia Ltd, and Reliance Power Ltd have announced plants to jointly develop the 3,960 MW coal-based thermal power project at Hirma in Jharsugda district of Orissa.
Brazil's second uranium-fuelled nuclear power station should begin warming up its reactor next month and produce electricity in June after months of delay, state nuclear energy officials said Tuesday.
