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 …
Massive leakage of coolant water at a Japanese nuclear power plant caused radiation leak 11,500 times over the safety limit, the company operating it said on Thursday. The extent of the leakage is much higher than the originally estimated levels of 250 times above the limit, but no radioactivity escaped …
Iran:The Islamic Republic of Iran is at an advanced stage of procuring a feasibility report concerning the laying of a 1,000-km long sub-sea pipeline to bring in gas to India through the Okha port, in the Kutch region of Gujarat.
Broken Hill Proprietary Co. said it has secured an agreement with local Aborigines over the development of its 90%-owned Minerva natural gas-field in Australia's Victoria state.
The crack in a stainless steel pipe that leaked radioactive cooling water at the No. 2 reactor of the Tsuruga nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture, Japan may have been caused by torsional forces, it was learned Wednesday. The power station is operated by Japan Atomic Power Co. (Genden). The …
National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd(NTPC) will consider relocating the proposed site of its Cheyyur Super Thermal Power Project plant. This follows stiff resistance from salt pan workers from the Cheyyur area voiced at the public hearing for the project held here on Wednesday.
China's main state oil company has completed a refinery and pipeline in Sudan in its biggest overseas project to date. The Muglad Oilfield project is part of an aggressive overseas expansion by China National Petroleum Corp., which is looking for oil to fuel China's booming economy.
Greenpeace charged that a French plutonium fuel production facility located in Dessel, Belgium is operating in violation of Belgian law. The international environment group has charged that the plutonium fuel for the imminent France/Japan shipment has been produced under illegal circumstances. Greenpeace has filed legal papers with the Belgian Supreme …
The fate of the controversial power plant at Bujagali Falls in Uganda will depend on the outcome of an ongoing study of all the country's potential hydropower project sites. The World Bank study will seek to establish which projects meet a set of recently adopted standards for funding. The controversial …
In a significant development, petrochemical major Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL)f is joining hands with Herdillia Chemicals to manufacture polybutene, which is a major feed stock for the 2T oil manufacturers like IOC, BPCL, HPCL etc in the country
The new president of Toyota Motor Corp. took the news calmly when the U.S. government filed a lawsuit against a Toyota sales subsidiary seeking fines of up to $58.5 billion under the Clean Air Act. "I knew (in advance) that a lawsuit like this would be filed. I didn't have …
The amount of high-quality, drinkable water available to commercial bottlers in Ontario is a drop in the bucket, according to provincial officials. 'People shouldn't think their water is going to run dry tomorrow or anything,'' Dan Schultz, press secretary to Environment Minister Tony Clement, said yesterday. The industry has been …
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board Workers' Federation(MSEBWF) on Monday said it would launch a Statewide movement this month to oppose the proposed Phase II of Enron's Dabhol power project and the board's initiative to privatise its distribution network in new Mumbai.
Zeneca, the agrochemicals company, condemned the damage inflicted on its trial of genetically-modified poplar trees in southern England as an act of "senseless vandalism". The trees are being grown as part of an eight year European Union research programme into using less energy and chlorine in paper-making. They have reduced …
About 13 mullion tons of silt gets drained into Chilka every year, reducing the size of the country's largest brackish water lagoon on Orissa coast at an alarming rate. The latest survey conducted by the Central Inland Capture Fisheries Research Institute has attributed physiographic changes and human intervention to the …
Chief Minister, Mr Digvijay Singh, said that all irrigation arrangements would be entrusted to the farmers by the year 2000 and all those officers and employees managing the irrigation schemes would be placed under their charge. He said prior to this government would like to make necessary improvements in management …
About 20 tons of radioactive coolant water leaked from an 8-centimeter-long crack in a pipe at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan on Monday, officials of the Japan Atomic Power Co. said. No radiation leaked outside the No. 2 reactor building where the accident occurred, they said. …
Six executives of the company which operates the oil pipeline across Alaska have warned of a huge environmental disaster at any moment because of poor maintenance. The paper said the warning was contained in a letter from the six employees of the Alyeska company to John Browne, the head of …
A one-day convention held by the MSEB Workers Federation in protest against the second phase of Enron and privatisation of power generation and distribution today unanimously decided to intensify the agitation aginst the Shiv Sena-BJP government for its unconditional support to the Enron power project.
Geologists have discovered the fossilised remains of massive dinosaurs in Antarctica, signs that many prehistoric "eating machines" were spread over a much broader territory than previously believed. An expedition to the remote Antarctica pennisula and nearby islands has unearthed large deposits of dinosaur fossils, including remains of two types of …
