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 …
U.S. oil firm Phillips Petroleum pleased environmentalists with a $1.1 billion plan to remove oil and gas installations from a Norwegian North Sea field in one of the world's biggest offshore clean-ups. Phillips said it would dismantle all 14 disused steel platforms at the Ekofisk field on land - almost …
In tune with their strategic partnership, Russia and China have started contruction of an advanced nuclear power plant in east China's Jiangsu province, the state-run Xinhua news agency has reported.
At a technical conference-cum-seminar on petroleum industry in Islamabad recently, the speakers who were mostly associated with the oil companies referred to the on-going deadlock in the fixation of prices of the newly discovered gas reserves in Pakistan.They rightly emphasised that unless the country satisfactorily resolved this issue, the huge …
The first phase of the construction of the Sino-Russian Tianwan nuclear power station in Eastern China will cost $3.2 billion, the Financial News reported. That would include $300 million provided by shareholders of the project, $1.3 billion in loans from the Russian government, $1.0 billion in commcercial loans and $600 …
In a bid to stem air pollution, Shanghai plans to spend 400 million yuan ($48 million) to pipe natural gas into 2.5 million households by 2010, the official Shanghai Daily said. Some 100,000 homes in the Pudong development zone would be the first to benefit from conversions from traditional coal …
A senior citizen's council has woken up to the long-standing probelm of polluiton caused by the Gujarat Electricity Board run thermal power station, situated in the north of the state capital.
India's nuclear power programme is expected to receive a body blow following a potential threat of uranium shortage. As against a minimum requirement of 400 tonnes of uranium for the ten operating reactors in the country, only 200 tonnes were being supplied by the Uranium corporation of India (UCIL), chief …
Workers at Britain's most controversial nuclear plant run a higher risk of fathering stillborn children than men working in the non-nuclear sector, according to a study published in Saturday's issue of The Lancet.
Britain's Energy Minister Helen Liddellrejected yesterday proposals by Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB Energy DevelopmentCompany Ltd to build a 450 megawatt gas-fired power station in Eastern England. The project at Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire was turned down as it was not in accordance with the government'sstricter consents policy for gas-fired power …
Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that asPresident he would ban any new offshore drilling for oil and gas along the California and Florida coasts. President Clinton last year extended a moratorium on drilling first imposed by President Bush. But the proposal by Gore, who is battling his Presidential …
The Union ministry of power has sounded a special alert between December 30 and January 2 to combat any possible fallout from the Y2K problem. The ministry is posting 15 power engineers, specially trained by the National Informatics Centre at strategic locations to tackle any Y2K-related problem, on these four …
Federation of Andhra Pradesh Farmers Association president P Chengal Reddy has been invited by the World Bank to participate and deliver a lecture at the international conference on biotechnology. He is the only farmer leader to be called by the World bank to air the views on the controversial subject, …
The Energy Department, ending the first phase of its investigation of the troubled Paducah, Ky., uranium plant, faulted contractors yesterday forfailing to properly warn the public about radioactive hazards, including "relatively high" levels of plutonium in ditches outside the plant. Investigators zeroing in on the plant's current environmental and safety …
When Mexican metals producer Penoles is allowed to fully restart a plant in Torreon that was partially closed in May due to health concerns, it will be subject to immediate suspension if emissions levels surge, environmental authorities told Reuters yesterday. The company's Met-Mex plant, about 500 miles (800 km) northwest …
Though the power sector in India is well ahead in their Y2K rectification drive with a total 26,846 megawatt capacity ready to face the millennium bug, it is yet to make 4,862 MW of power Y2K compliant.
India, the world's second largest developing market for 'announced power projects,' has beaten the leader China in the number of independent projects solicited and privatised.
Rajasthan has entered a new era of power generation by using yet another alternate source of energy, wind power. The first two mega watt "demonstration wind farm project" has been set up near Amarsagar village in Jaisalmer district by the Rajasthan State Power Corporation Ltd (RSPCL), managing director Subhash Gard …
The Slum and JJ wing of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi would be setting up a pilot project of converting human and animal waste into gas to be used for illuminating street lights. The project would be installed by a private agency on a turn-key basis at a JJ cluster …
The Transport Commissioner has issued a circular recalling taxis older than 15 years to the Regional Traffic Offices (RTO) for stringent fitness tests, prompting the Mumbai Taximen's Union to threaten an agitation. According to the circular, issued by Transport Commisserion vinay Mohan Lal last wednesday the three RTOs-- Mumbai Central, …
The Richter scale , known for decades as the universal measure of earthquakes great and samll, is now considered outdated and no longer used by scientists among themselves, a leading seismologist has said. "Seismologists no longer talk about the richter scale when discussing the magnitudes of earthquakes," seismologist Lucy Jones …
