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 …
Natural gas could supply 25 percent of Israel's energy needs, worth $1 billion annually, over the next 20 years, industry sources said yesterday. Prime Minister Ehud Barak's office said that Egypt agreed to export natural gas to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, with plans to eventually extend a pipeline through …
Six US lawmakers have written to the head of the World Bank urging the institution to take a more active role in resolving a long running dispute between Pakistan and its largest private-sector power producer. The letter says that the dispute between the government run Water and Power Development Authority …
Environmentalist Medha Patkar who has been leading Narmada Bachawat Andolan today pledged her support to the environmentalists' fight against Mangalore Power Project of Cogentgrix.
Despite the counter-guarantee given by the Union Government on Wednesday for the 1,000 MW Mangalore Power Project promoted by the Cogentrix, it looks like that the Cogentrix may not have its way as the State Government is unlikely to agree for the demands being put forward by the American company, …
the answer to cheaper water heaters? : A back-yard project in Taba (Bhutan) producing solar water heaters could one day mean a cheaper and more economical alternative to electric water heaters.The work of a solar water consultant for UNICEF and his two trainees, the small project in Taba has tried …
The Liberal Democrats in Britain remain the greenest of the three major parties, and the party's environmental beliefs are spelled out on every page of its mini-manifesto "Freedom in a Liberal Society". Read the small print, and they are far from promising a cut in fuel tax. The Liberal Democrat …
The United States lacks a serious energy policy, one that promises over time to produce a reasonable match between presumably finite supplies and steadily rising demand. The failure to enact such a policy has been throughly bipartisan. Neither party when in power and neither elected has wanted to impose the …
A short-term solution : When the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created in the 1970s, it was seen as a defense against supply disruptions that threatened national security - not as a political tool to manage price disruptions. But now economists, oil traders, refiners and politicians are divided about whether …
President Bill Clinton ordered the release of up to 30m barrels of oil from the US strategic petroleum reserve over the next 30 days amid mounting global energy concerns. The action came a day after Al Gore, the vice-president, proposed a similar oil swap plan.
For the first time in a generation, the United States finds itself edging toward a possible energy crisis. Although experts are divided on whether such a crisis will occur, Americans are worrying seriously about their energy bills and energy supplies.
An Atomic Energy Commission panel on Tuesday submitted to the commission a draft plan outlining the direction of nuclear energy research, development and use for the early 21st century in Japan.The commission, chaired by Science and Technology Agency Director General Tadamori Oshima, hopes to announce details of the final plan …
The Delhi Government is planning to by-pass the Delhi Assembly and notify an ordinance to bring power reforms in the Capital. The move is reported to be prompted by fears that the Congress legislators might delay implementation of the power reforms or force the government to dilute its provisions.
Germany's environment ministry called on its Czech counterpart to hold urgent bilateral talks on the controversial Temelin nuclear power station after presenting a critical report identifying serious safety concerns at the $2.5bn project. The German worries followed last month's loading by the Czechs of nuclear fuel rods in Temelin's reactor.
The World Bank launched a biodiversity conservation fund that will channel $150m to grassroots organisations working in some of the world's most threatened regions. The fund, which has been set up jointly with Conservation International, a global non-profit organisation and the Global Environment Facility, the main international funder of biodiversity …
Coming soon, to a chip near you: your own genes. The biotechnology industry, which has long lived in the shadow of Silicon Valley and envied its many overnight successes, is now tapping into that same technology in a bid to speed up its own growth significantly. These biochips look like …
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday evening cleared issuance of central counter-guarantee for the 1,000 MW Cogentrix power project in Karnataka. With the approval, the jinxed power project is likely to take off as Mangalore Power Company, where both Cogentrix and China Light and Power company are stock holders, announced recently …
Govt lists out benefits: Big dams are what the country needs.If India has to feed its population of 164 crore by 2050, high dams are the only answer.This was what Union Water Resources Minister C.P. Thakur had to say to the Press today.He circulated a three-page note which listed the …
The State (Karnataka) BJP has maintained that it is still opposed to both the Cogentrix and Nagarjuna power projects in the ecologically sensitive region as both of them are coal-based mega projects (1000 mw).
Two farmers from Mota Thavaria, Jamanbhai Bheemabhai and Sumabhai Parbatbhai, have served Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) with a legal notices asking the company to compensate for the damages done to their crop and 80 acres of land during the recent oil leak at Thavaria village of Jamanagar district.
