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 …
Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil company, is planning to survey the world's biggest tiger reserve after company geologists pinpointed it as one of the richest potential sources of oil and gas on earth, according to a report in the Sunday Times.The Sunderbans area of Bangladesh is host to some of the …
Delhi transport minister Parvez Hashmi said the government decided to begin the phase out of old private two-wheelers as their number is much more as compared to cars. There are an estimated 6.5 lakh two-wheelers in the Capital.
Gas Authority of India Ltd(GAIL) has signed an agreement with Karntaka State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation to study techno-economic feasibility of setting up a gas pipeline to serve various end users in Karnataka and Kerala.
The Indian Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) will consider the setting up of any nuclear power station in the eastern region only if such projects can be made economically viable with the Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) evolved under the Kyoto Protocol.
The site for Chashma nuclear power plant (CHASNUPP) is completely safe and there is no seismic fault there, PAEC said in Islamabad on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, while commenting on a press report, told APP that the claim was not correct.
With world oil prices close to their highest levels in a decade, it is time to accelerate moves toward wider use of energy sources that do not disrupt the environment. The latest oil price escalation, if prolonged, could trigger a global recession.
China has decided to speed up the use of natural gas in the coming years. The proportion of natural gas in the energy consumption is expected to increase to about 4 percent in 2005 from 2 percent at present.
The State Government is bent upon bank-rupting the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board (MPEB) to pave the way for the privatised Maheshwar power project and giving an escrow guarantee to it which the Government cannot afford.
Hisashi Ouchi, one of three JCO Co. workers exposed to massive amounts of radiation in the Japan's worst nuclear accident in September, died of multiple organ failure Tuesday night, doctors said. He was 35. Ouchi, became the first person to die from radiation exposure in the nation's nuclear power industry …
When a country experiences a major nuclear accident, a change of nuclear energy policy inevitably follows because of the impact on the region concerned. The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant disaster in 1979 forced the United States to stop ordering new nuclear power plant reactors. The Chernobyl disaster in …
Japanese government officials tried to ease concerns among residents living near nuclear facilities in Ibaraki Prefecture, following the death Tuesday of JCO Co. employee Hisashi Ouchi. "The residents will not suffer from acute troubles," said Makoto Akashi, executive of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, an affiliate of the Science …
Norwegian energy authorities said yesterday they had approved a 300 million crown plan to build 26 windmills in northern Norway, giving the green light to start construction of the country's biggest windmill park.
Huge fuel oil spillage from Pakistan State Oil (PSO) installation at Pipri has made the Hubco and KESC power generation activity extremely vulnerable, beside endangering ecology of Indian Ocean.
JCO Co. on Tuesday began removing more than 30 liters of uranium solution that still remained in a settling tank at its uranium reconversion plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred on Sept. 30. The company plans to pour the solution into stainless steel bottles and …
The Dutch Environment Ministry yesterday recalled 4,500 bicycle saddlebags which it had given its employees for Christmas after discovering they contained excessive amounts of the toxic metal cadmium. "The bags contain higher amounts of cadmium than is allowed under the law on environmentally hazardous substances," the ministry said.
Hisashi Ouchi, 35, a worker at the JCO Co. uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan who suffered massive exposure to radiation during a criticality accident on Sept. 30 at the plant, died Tuesday night at a Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, hospital doctors said. His death is the first human …
After a spirited chase across the sky, the space shuttle Discovery grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope with its robot arm today, retrieving the observatory to begin a critical repair mission. The space shuttle, which had been chasing Hubble since being launched on Sunday, spent the day closing in on the …
Balochistan coastal belt has potential of about six billion barrels oil and 90 trillion cubic feet natural gas resources. Well-informed sources indicated here on Tuesday that an Australian oil and gas company, UMC, has been allowed by the present government to work for oil and gas exploration along the provincial …
Sagar Island - the largest in the cluster of islands in West Bengal's Sundarbans deltaic region, is on its way to becoming the model in the harnessing of the sun's energy for lighting up homes.
