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 fairly large area in the state, covering parts of 13 districts, has shown noticeable decline in the ground water level during the last decade ending 1998.
Even as energy circles are talking of the "big loss" to Karnataka following Cogentrix's pullout , the state is quietly negotiating to buy power from the Maharashtra-based Tata Electric Company.
Scientists, environmental organizations, indigenous groups, community members and business owners this week spoke out against oil exploration the U.S. company MKJ Xplorations is conducting off the Atlantic port of Mo
Water experts from the UK who were at Chennai recently, believe that a gradual migration to privatisation of water facilities in the country will be more successful than a direct shift to build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects. Given the absence of a strong regulatory framework and the lack of a "user pays" …
quits : The $1.3 billion American Cogentrix Power Project in Karnataka, dogged by delays, environmental protests, and charges of corruption, has been called off, a decision that has shocked the State Government, but brought cheer to environmentalist groups spearheading a campaign against the power plant.
India has called for a strong protocol on liability and compensation for violation of the Basel Convention on the control of trans-boundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal. The necessity for such a step was voiced by minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at Basel in Switzerland, …
The three-- two Indians, Preeti Verma and Dilip Bhaskaran and a foreigner patricia-tied themselves to the anchor of a Greek ship 'Clair' on Thursday to prevent it from sailing into Alang, on of the world's biggest ship-breaking yard located in the Gulk of Cambay on the Gujarat coast. They had …
Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd (KMML), Chavara, a public sector undertaking, and Hotel Taj Residency, Ernakulam, are among the winners of the Energy Conservation Awards for 1999 instituted by the Kerala government.
Pearl project to detect pollutants using laster system. Three US universities have drawn up an ambitious project plan to develop a ship-based research laboratory with a high-power laser system to detect pollutants from natural and artificial sources and for a host of other applications including detection of chemical warfare agents, …
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has said 'no' to plans for a naphtha-based power station and asked the city's thermal power stations to take steps to control pollution. This, and more, is contained in a formal note sent on December 3 by DPCC to the Union Environment Ministry.
Does India want to be a dumping ground for hazardous waste? Does it think it can handle the fallout? Does it want clean industry or not? "We're not really sure now," say Greenpeace activists. The response they've got from various Union Government departments this time has left them confused, they …
The 19-month-long ban on new power connections in Goa has finally been lifted by the High court, but only partially, to clear pending applications for agricultural, commercial and industrial purpose.
Widespread protests over the sharp rise in oil prices are provoking dismay and anger in the environmental movement. The public and politicians are accused of losing sight of the need to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. The issue has been thrown into sharp relief by gathering of international negotiators on …
Oil-rich Texas is expected to meet the nation's most ambitious state goal for the production of electricity from renewable energy sources seven years ahead of schedule.An ambitious requirement signed into state law in 1999 by Texas governor George W. Bush requiring roughly 3% of the state's electricity to come from …
A US professor has developed a process allowing difficult to dispose of sewage sludge to be turned into a combustible gas with a positive by-product, methane gas.Currently sewage sludge, the harmful of the two by-products of treating raw sewage, is incinerated using a substantial amount of fuel, as it is …
On Sunday, OPEC ministers will meet at OPEC headquarters in Vienna to consider a request from oil importing countries to boost daily oil output by at least 500,000 barrels. But it may be too late. With the East Asian economies, including that of China, booming again, and with U.S. oil …
The project appraisal document of the World Bank for the power sector reforms in Andhra Pradesh indicates that successor entities of the APSEB, read APGenco and APTransco, should be financed by enhancing the power tariff at an annual average rate of 12 per cent in the four years.
In a significant move, all states have unanimously agreed to the power minstry's proposal of having 100 per cent metering and billing systems for improving energy accounting in the utilities.
The Gujarat Government has sought compensation from the Power Trading Corporation (PTC) for environment disruption owing to the proposed 2000-MW Pipavav mega power project.
A draft policy envisaging a package fro enhancing further private sector participation and to increase the involvement of rural based cooperatives in electricity generation will be prepared soon by the Government.
