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 …
A group of Australian owner-truck drivers has set up blockades at three major oil refineries in the Victorian capital of Melbourne to protest high fuel costs and low freight rates.
If you are sitting on $18bn worth of oil in an election year, there must be a temptation to use it to curb the rise in voters' heating bills. Al Gore, the US vice-president and presidential candidate, has yielded to the idea. (editorial)
The improved stove (Unnata Chula) of Bangladesh Science Laboratory is gaining popularity among housewives in Panchagarh, Bangladesh. The use of stove is increasing as it takes less time and fuel to cook food. 'It saves time and money, said Rasheda Begume a house wife.
European compliance with key decisions of the OSPAR international environmental convention banning sea disposal of offshore oil and gas installations has begun with action by the UK Government.The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has published a new set of guidelines for gas and oil companies, Guidance Notes for …
Goa has a good news for industries willing to settle in the state and avail the Income Tax and Sales Tax holiday.The tourist state is expected to have excess power to sell, possbly from the next month.
U.S. oil and natural gas producing states complained yesterday about a proposed study by the Environmental Protection Agency on the effects of hydraulic fracturing used during drilling, calling the study a waste of taxpayer money and unnecessary. Hydraulic fracturing takes place in the oil field drilling process, in which a …
The Royak Dutch/Shell Group struck an oil field seen at 560 million barrels off the coast of Brazil, making the first foresing deep-water discovery in the coutry, the dialy Jornal do Brasil reported on Saturday.
Daewoo Power India Ltd has pulled out of the 1,070 mw Korba (east) thermal power project in central India, becoming the third foreign firm to withdraw from Indian power projects this year.
Russian, American and Norwegian defense officials gathered at the Izhorsky Factories last week for the presentation of a prototype transport and storage container for spent fuel from decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines. The container, which was developed by a number of Russian research institutes, was funded as part of the Arctic …
Even as workers collapsed on the factory flood or suffered from serious ailments, including leukemia, the Paducah uranium processing plant in Kentucky, U.S. , hid radiation levels from its staff , a newspaper has claimed. The workers were unwittingly exposed to highly radioactive plutonium and neptunium from the 1950s to …
Noted economist Prof. H.M. Desarda on Friday asked the Karnataka government to drop the controversial Cogentrix Project, saying purchase of power produced by it would cast a heavy financial burden on the state electricity board due to high per unit cost.
A US-based study has found that diesel vehicles emit dangeroursly high volumes of nitrogen oxides and particulate matters compared with petrol vehicles. Both the pollutants cause serious health hazards apart from causing urban fog.
North Korea called yesterday for a U.S.-led international consortium to compensate for losses stemming from delays in the construction of light-water nuclear reactors, originally scheduled for delivery by 2003.
The third unit of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) at Rawabhata went critical a minute before midnight on Friday thus crossing a significant milestope in India's nuclear power programme. RAPP-3 is the second nuclear power unit to become operational within three months. In September, the second unit of the …
The US power major, PSEG Global is all set to acquire a controlling equity stake in the Tannir Bhavi Power Company, which is establishing a 220 MW barge-mounted power project near Mangalore. The Mangalore-based GMR Vasavi Group currently holds the entire equity of the IPP. The project being established at …
A social activist from the drought prone Madanpur-Rampur area in Kalahandi district has suggested a construction of a river grid system as a solution to the chronic drought and drinking water scarcity problem in western Orissa. In a letter to Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, social activist, Mr Brajamohan Mohapatra, …
The Government has decided to defer the oil price hike till the month end even as it opted for a three-pronged strategy to contain the oil pool deficit within Rs 6000 crore. The Centre has agreed to go in for a marginal increase of prices and revise customs and excise …
The Western Orissa districts of Bolangir, Nuapada Bargarh, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda and Deogarh are heading for a severe drinking water crisis in the coming months as water sources in the region have started drying up due to highly deficient rainfall in July and August.
The contribution of large dams to increased foodgrains production in India is only 10 per cent contrary to largely held belief, is a finding of the India Country Study(ICS) on large dams conducted by a consultant team of prominent Indian experts for the World Commission on Dams(WCD).The final report of …
More wind power capacity was produced globally over the last year than ever, according to a Washington, D.C. trade group. In 1999, 3,600 more megawatts (MW), about the capacity of three large nuclear power plants, were produced with wind power, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said.
