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 …
It seemed like just another chapter in the familiar story of the foreign investors giving up on India. On December 9, more than seven years after agreeing to build a $1.3 billion power plant in Karnataka in southern India, Cogentrix Energy America and its partner, CLP Holdings of Hong Kong, …
Greenpeace international on Wednesday declared the Eloor industrial belt at Kochi, housing industries like the Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore, Hindustan Insecticides Ltd. and Indian Rare Earths, as the 35th global toxic hotspot.
Expert: Pakistan's second nuclear power plant which is scheduled to become operational early next year has locational and manufacturing flaws which makes it unsafe and may lead to a major nuclear disaster, a leading Pakistani expert has warned.
The government on Wednesday said the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project on the Narmada would be completed in next two years if the Supreme Court gives a "decisive" verdict in the case coming up for hearing on February 8.
Asia must use oil more efficiently and develop alternative sources. In Asia, foresight on the oil front seems nowhere on government priority lists. The Crisis put on hold many energy-saving plans. But even as Asian economies recover, fuelling demands for oil, projects such as urban mass-transit rail systems remain on …
Two new announcements have effectively nailed the lid on Chernobyl's coffin: Ukraine's president announced the plant's December closure, and a new technology will soon immobilise its leftover radioactive waste.
The World Bank is ready to offer emergency funding to poor nations that face financial troubles because of high oil prices, James Wolfensoh, the Bank's president, said. At the same time, the World Bank is exploring ways to protect poor-country exporters of such commodities as cocoa or coffee that risk …
With politicians around the world seeking answers to surging oil prices, Vice President Al Gore place the issue squarely into the U.S. presidential campaign by urging President Bill Clinton to draw on the government-held emergency petroleum reserve to bring prices down.
India is looking to establish closer ties with oil and gas companies in Southeast Asia to help make up for its hydrocarbon shortfall, said Ram Naik, India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Mr. Naik was speaking at the Indonesian International Oil, Gas & Energy Conference, which started in Jakarta.
Oil prices at current levels would wipe a percentage point off expected growth rates in developing countries next year, and the impact could be made worse by moves towards lower energy taxes in rich countries, World Bank officials said.
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is growing at an unprecedented rate and could reach a record depth this year, United Nations meteorologists said on Friday. The findings of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) come two weeks after the U.S. space agency NASA said the largest hole ever …
If the governments of the European Union can find any comfort in the gasoline price protests that have hopscotched across the continent in the last three weeks, it is this: The protesters seem to embody the new European ethic of working together across borders for common goals.The trouble began in …
Britain needs to exempt a new generation of smaller, cleaner power plants from a proposed new energy tax or risk not meeting targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA) said yesterday. CHPA Assistant Director Graham Meeks told Reuters in an interview new CHP plant …
UN report : The following excerpt from the Trade and Development Report 2000 of UNCTAD released this week says "oil prices in the second half of year are expected to decline moderately and thus to average $24 a barrel for the year as a whole". Although that prediction so far …
Gov. George W. Bush today criticized Vice President Al Gore's call to tap the nation's petroleum reserves as "bad policy" that sought "short-term political gain at the cost of long-term national security." On a day when high gasoline prices moved to the center of the presidential race, Mr. Bush and …
A new study paints a picture of an increasingly energy-efficient US economy but shows that huge differences exist between different states. The report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, (ACEEE), an organisation dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as a means of promoting economic prosperity and environmental protection, found …
Vice President Al Gore said today that the White House should release a modest amount of oil from government stockpiles to try to stabilize oil prices, a move that Gov. George W. Bush immediately denounced as a political ploy that could endanger national security.If Mr. Clinton acts on Mr. Gore's …
In the last 10 years the international community has spent some $4 billion dollars to conserve biological diversity. This has paid for a lot of good work. But overall we are failing to stem the lethal dynamic of chronic poverty and growing population which is destroying species a thousand times …
An advisory panel on Monday endorsed a plan by Chugoku Electric Power Co. to build a new nuclear reactor in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.The Electric Power Development Coordination Council's green light sets the stage for the government to give the first nod to a nuclear power project since last September's accident …
Pakistan plans fresh incentives to boost investment in the upstream oil and gas sector as it seeks to avoid being left behind in the global energy investment race, governemnt and industry officials said on Monday.
