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 …
At least 50 people were burned to death when a fuel pipeline exploded in southeast Nigeria in the worst such incident since more than 1,000 died in a blaze in 1998, residents said on Thursday.
A court rejected a lawsuit filed by residents demanding the permanent closure of Japan's only fast-breeder nuclear reactor, once seen as the cornerstone of the energy-hungry nation's future power supply. The 'dream reactor' designed to produce more nuclear fuel than it consumes, has been closed down since December 1995 when …
The government made it mandatory for state electricity boards (SEBs) to sign power purchase agreement (PPA) to avail power from all new Central sector projects in a bid to guard against payment defaults. The cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) decided that the earlier formula for distribution of power from …
India and the US moved in a major way to collaborate in the power sector. While an accord on developing solar energy was signed between the two governments, a series of agreements was concluded between firms in both countries to set up conventional power projects in three states.
New York's Long Island, physicists are preparing to travel back to the dawn of the universe. In a few weeks their time machine, buried beneath the department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will begin stripping gold atoms of their electrons and accelerating them to 99.995 per cent of the speed …
The two-day confernce on water security-its aim was to put water more firmly on the political agenda-concluded in The Hague with some 80-odd ministers gathered here from various parts of the world recognising "the need for institutional, technological and financial innovations" to move beyond 'business as usual' and resolving to …
The Hydrocarbons Vision 2025, which was presented to the Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, has proposed 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the oil refining sector which currently is capped at 49 per cent. The Hydrocarbons Vision 2025, which enunicates the long term road map for the sector, …
Irish geneticists have used surnames and the male Y chromosome to reconstruct a one thousand year-old genetic map of Ireland that shows that the Irish really are a race apart. The Y chromosome is passed down exclusively from father to son. The study was conducted by Daniel Bradley and colleagues …
A controversial British nuclear-reprocessing plant may be forced to shut down because of mounting international pressure, newspapers report. Denmark, Iceland and Ireland are planning to invoke environmental treaties on radiation-emissions to force reprocessing to be suspended at the Sellafield plant, Britain's Guardian newspaper said. The governments are worried about Sellafield's …
From simmering tanks of high-level nuclear waste in Washington State and plutonium laced with chemical poisons in Idaho to production of radioactive gases in South Carolina, the U.S. government's nuclear weapons program has an unparalleled array of festering technical and environment problems.
The Hague, Netherlands, March 22 - Water officials from 130 countries disappointed experts and activists by failing to declare the resource a human right and avoiding concrete measures to ensure a clean water supply for the world's growing population in the 21st century. The ministers and government officials discussed recommendations …
The U.S. House yesterday passed legislation to store the nation's hazardous nuclear waste from commercial power plants in the Nevada desert by decade's end, but the measure faces an almost assured veto by President Clinton. With a 253 to 167 vote, the House approved the plan to construct a waste …
Expert : In an attempt to please the US, the government has hurriedly cobbled up an environmental agreement which may cost India heavily, says director of Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), Dr R K Pachauri. The Indo-US agreement on environment will be signed by US secretary of state Madeleine Albright …
Ramar Pillai, who was arrested by the CBI on March 11 for allegedly cheating the public by selling herbal fuel, was refused bail by the CBI Special Court today.
Rural Energy Development Programme (REDP), under United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has been awarded with the 'Energy Globe Award 2000' at Linz, Austria recently. The award was given to REDP for its accomplishments in the field of promoting rural renewable energy technologies in Nepal.
An ambitious scheme is afoot for rain water harvesting in the 11 hill districts of western UP which often face water shortage, especially in the summer months. BJP MP from Pauri Garhwal B.C. Khanduri said that a high-powered committee of the Central Ground Water Harvesting Authority had been asked by …
Germany's Greens Party rallied behind the Government's nuclear power policy and stopped short of threatening to quit the ruling coalition ovr arms sales to Turkey.The Party, which has been divided over compromises made by its ministers in the coalition, gave a standing ovation to Environment Minister Juergen Truttin as he …
British Nuclear Fuels was dealt another blow at the weekend when Jurgen Trittin, Germany's environment minister, warned that its nuclear waste reprocessing business with Germany atomic power stations had no long-term future. Speaking at a conference of his Green party in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, Mr Trittin confirmed that Berlin intended …
Water resource experts from South Asia today criticized the framework for the development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) region as simple, rhetoric and lacking in analysis. At the regional presentation on Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin on the third day of the 6-day World Water Forum, water resource expert from Nepal Ajay Dixit said …
Nearly 550,000 New Mexico customers lost electricity for up to three hours after a grass fire shut down two power plants, snarling traffic in Albuquerque, silencing radio and television station and forcing the state high school basketball tournament to halt games.
