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 …
Tax experts aid that the UK Government's planned levy on fossil fuel use might affect fewer companies than expected. Their comments came as Customs & Excise released the draft clauses of the bill on the tax, known as the climate change levy.
The environmental lobby group Greenpeace of Germany is launching a venture which also lays down a challenge to all the people in the country who claim they want "clean" -meaning non-atom, non-coal based-electricity. On January 1, 2000, Greenpeace will be going into the electricity business itself, with a cooperative company …
The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) has been awarded the 1999 CTI World Climate Technology Award. IREDA is a public sector enterprise under the control of the Ministry of Non-Renewable Energy Sources (MNES).
A hydro-electricity power situation built at the end of the last century to serve Welsh slate quarries is to be reopened after almost 50 years to feed a growing British appetite for "green" electricity. National Power, the generator that last week announced plans to demerge its international and domestic electricity …
Japan's powerful Lower House of Parliament, reacting to a major nuclear accident, passed two bills today to strengthen nuclear supervision and crisis management. The legislation passed with unanimous support.
The ministry for petroleum and natural gas has drawn a blank on the coal bed methane (CBM) policy with state governments pulling in different directions. While the West Bengal government has given its consent to the Centre's draft policy on exploration and exploitation of CBM the Bihar government has not …
Fly-ash pollution from a thermal power plant near Calcutta is threatening lives of at least 2,00,000 people in the area, but the authorities have turned a blind eye to the problem. Hazardous pollution and flyash emnating from the Kolaghat Thermal Power Station have sparked fears of a tuberculosis epidemic breaking …
Fly-ash pollution from a thermal power plant near Calcutta is threatening lives of at least 200,000 people in the area, but the authorities have turned a blind eye to the problem. Hazardous pollution and fly-ash emanating from the Kolaghat thermal Power Station have sparked fears of a tuberculosis epidemic breaking …
The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency(IREDA), which pioneered the growth of renewable energy sources and use of clean technologies in the country, has been conferred the CTI world climate technology award, 1999.
The Rajasthan government has revived its proposal to set up the world's largest hybrid naphtha-fired-cum-solar power project in the Thar Desert. The 140-mw project is now proposed to be promoted by the state-owned Rajasthan State Power Corporation (RSPC), with aid from the World Bank, and KFW, a lending agency of …
The government on Friday announced that it would amend the Electricity Regulatory Act to enable two or more states and union territories to establish a joint Electricity Regulatory Commission and revised the costs of two power transmission projects.
Electricity from the North East will soon be available from the rest of the country when the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) lines get connected to the national grid. NEEPCO, headquartered at the Meghalaya capital, proposes to get linked to the national stream at Malda in West Bengal.
The Tokai nuclear accident was caused and mishandled by the central government, which has propagated a "nuclear safety myth" and failed to build up adequate emergency measures, Tokai Mayor Tatsuya Murakami said Friday. At a Tokyo news conference, Murakami, 56, said the government's negligence and failure to educate people of …
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia signed a dealtoday to build a pipeline that would send the oil riches of the Caspian Sea to international markets without going through Russia or Iran. President Clinton looked on as the leaders from the three nations signed a series of accords to build a pipeline …
U.S. environmentalists said yesterday that 400 coal-burning power plants in 43 states are not being regulated against pumping mercury into the air, and called for new government rules to prevent the toxic releases.
Officials at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant shut down a reactor yesterday after a leak was noted in its cooling system, but no increase in radiation levels was recorded, the Emergencies Ministry said. A ministry duty officer identifying himself as Colonel Patsenko said the leak was noticed in the afternoon …
In yet another example of the conflict between corporate interests and grassroot realities, even as Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd's top brass have claimed that work on the Rs. 745-crore 364-km product pipeline starting from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) complex in Mangalore and ending at Tarabahalli near Bangalore is …
The Gujarat Government may have found important allies in Dr. Richard Jolly, Chairman of the Global Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) of the United Nations, and Mr. Gourishankar Ghosh, head of the Water and Environmental Sanitation of the UNICEF, who are supporting the cause of the disputed Narmada …
Spanish electricity company Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico SA said yesterday its environmental services unit would invest 4.0 billion pesetas ($24.92 million) to build two 30-megawatt plants which will treat cattle dung.
