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 petroleum industry will have to come up with a stronger proposal if it wants changes to new regulations on sulphur in gasoline,Canada's Environment Minister David Anderson says. The government has come under pressure from the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute to revamp the regulations aimed at reducing smog.
Lithuania's parliament has set a January 1,2005, deadline for completing preparations to close the first of two reactors at the Ignalina nuclear power plant inherited from the Soviet Union. The European Union has been pressing Lithuania to close the plant, built in the 1980s on the same design as Ukraine's …
China's first natural gas power plant is to be developed in the northwest of the country. According to the blueprint, the power station is designed to be equipped with four generating sets and become a medium sized power station.
For a water-rich and energy-starved country like Nepal water mills provide a welcome solution to sustain the rural economies, said the experts at a workshop 'Prospects of Water Mill-Improvements in Nepal for Rural Application' in Kathmandu.
A Colombian court has blocked development of the country's biggest prospective new oilfield, by ruling that the tribal people living in the area had not been properly consulted. The verdict has temporarily halted all work at the planned Gibraltar drill site near the Venezuelan border.
The NDMC seems to have taken on the challenge of becoming the country's number one civic agency in real earnest. The civic agency appears to be cruising nicely towards this goal as a number of civic bodies, including Mumbai, Banglore and Chennai, are reported to have shown willingness to replicate …
Delhi woman Gargi Banerji has won an Oscar. Well, it is the oscar for nature conservation, the prestigious whitley Prize with a cash prize of 50,000 pounds. Banerji got the award for endeavouring to protect nearly 1,000 species of medicinal and aromatic plants , in the Himalayan valleys of Lahaul …
Houston, we have yet another problem. More than 30 years after it put the first man on the moon, Nasa is concerned about how to avoid showering the globe with huge shards of red-hot metal. Last weekend the American space agency announced that it is to crashland a satellite the …
panel: An expert committee that went into the environmental impact on Kattupalli Island, Pulicat Lake and the Buckingham Canal due to the construction of the North Chennai Thermal Power Station(NCTPS), satellite port and the proposed petrochemical park has said the activities would cause irreparable damage to the fragile eco-system there.
Environmentalists have welcomed plans to introduce legislation which would reduce runoff into the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.) has said he will introduce legislation into the House of Representatives which would increase funding for and focus conservation programmes on high priority watersheds in the Upper Mississippi River …
About 1,467 people in the coastal villages of Akarpatti and Pofran, face displacement as the nuclear power plant at Tarapur adds on two more units. With the expansion work gathering momentum, villagers say they dread the day when the government forcibly occupies their fields and homes using the Land Acquisition …
Full-scale construction of two light-water reactors in North Korea is set to begin by mid-February, Desaix Anderson, executive director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, said in an interview. On Monday in Tokyo, Japan signed a loan agreement with KEDO to provide up to 116.5 billion yen to finance …
Enron has bowed out of the Kannur power project, thus enabling the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to accord its techno-economic clearance.The 513-MW power project in Kerala's Kannur district had received all the statutory clearances from the State and Central governments but was awaiting the techno-economic clearance for two years mainly …
Decks have been cleared for the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to examine the 3,960 MW Orissa-based Hirma mega power project following the Standing Independent Group's (SIG) recent decision to approve the project tariff.This will be the first project to be scrutinised by the Central power regulator and involve a …
Solar power is now the world's second fastest growing energy source, at an average growth rate of 16 percent per year since 1990, and the sales of solar cells expanded more than 40 percent in 1997.Solar energy is also being used in Pakistan and its especially useful in those areas …
The proposed crude oil terminal of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited at Kantiagada, in Ganjam district, has evoked protests from the Wildlife Society of Orissa in view of its proximity to the mass nesting site of the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles. In response to a notice issued by the …
A non conventional electricity plant was commissioned in the cooperative sugar mill in Faridkot. In a press note, the local public relations authorities claimed that cooperative sugar mill here became the first in North India where power would be produced from sugarcane waste.
The surprising cancellation of a nuclear-power-plant project in Mie Prefecture by Japan's third largest power company is the latest in a series of reminders of the ineffectiveness of Japan's nuclear-emergy policy and government inaction in the face of a rapidly growing public aversion to nuclear facilities.
The plea that the Maharashtra State Electricity Board should stop buying expensive power from Enron has been turned down by the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission.
Chep herbal fuel to run automobiles may not convince most people to make a switch from petrol even now, but it is manna from heaven for a good number of autorickshaws and many two-wheelers in the city. The controversial 'inventor' who is selling the fuel, Mr. Ramar Pillai now claims …
