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 …
In Tokyo Bay, there is a 1,650-hectare tideland called Sanbanse, located near Funabashi Seaside Park in Chiba Prefecture. With abundant tidelands stretching along its shores, Tokyo Bay used to be one of the country's best fishing grounds. However, rapid industrialization changed that. By the early 1980s, 22,000 hectares of the …
Osaka Deputy Mayor Junichi Seki on Monday apologized for the municipal government's failure to take measures to prevent the discharge of water from contaminated soil used to build Yumeshima island in Konohana Ward, Osaka, the proposed site for the athlete's village during the 2008 Olympic Games. The soil, which had …
Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon Corp.may never be the toast of "green" activists, but they can take comfort from a new report ranking them tops in the oil industry when it comes to the environment. Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon took first and second place respectively in a study of the environmental …
The Australian embassy in Bangkok has been plunged into an environmental row because it promoted Australian coal for two planned multi-billion-dollar electricity plants in Thailand. Critics maintain that Australian taxpayers' funds should not be used in a partisan way to support projects that are the subject of bitter local debate.
Elephants were ocean dwellers until they moved on to land several million years ago, research suggests. Previous studies indicating that modern elephants evolved from an aquatic mammal have concentrated on fossil records or the molecular and biochemical make-up of elephants. But a PhD student at Melbourne University, Ms Ann Gaeth, …
In Tokyo Bay, there is a 1,650-hectare tideland called Sanbanse, located near Funabashi Seaside Park in Chiba Prefecture. With abundant tidelands stretching along its shores, Tokyo Bay used to be one of the country's best fishing grounds. However, rapid industrialization changed that. By the early 1980s, 22,000 hectares of the …
Osaka Deputy Mayor Junichi Seki on Monday apologized for the municipal government's failure to take measures to prevent the discharge of water from contaminated soil used to build Yumeshima island in Konohana Ward, Osaka, the proposed site for the athlete's village during the 2008 Olympic Games. The soil, which had …
Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon Corp.may never be the toast of "green" activists, but they can take comfort from a new report ranking them tops in the oil industry when it comes to the environment. Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon took first and second place respectively in a study of the environmental …
Mr V K Sharma, the project director of the Kaiga nuclear power project, said that an off-site emergency exercise was proposed on May 15 to create awareness among the public to face any emergency that may arise due to accidents.
The fossil remains of an enormous rhinoceros-like mammal have been discovered in Pakistan and the French palaeontologists who found them believe they're the largest fossil remains of a land mammal in the world. The almost complete remains of the mammal were discovered last month in the eastern part of Balochistan …
Ramar Pillai of the "herbal petrol" fame was reportedly kidnapped from suburban Virugambakkam here late Saturday while he was preparing to leave for Delhi to meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee an Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi.
Five persons, including a production manager, were killed and two injured in a flash fire at the Panipat refinery of Indian Oil Corporation on Friday morning even as the corporation claimed to bring the fire under control within minutes. The fire broke out after a blast when engineers of IOC …
BG warned that gas prices for business consumers in Britain could rise by 30-40 per cent if the government introduced its proposed climate change levy. The natural gas pipeline operator and producer said the proposals, which are not based on the carbon content of various fuels, could have a disproportionate …
The public acounts committee of Parliament has expressed concern over the undue benefits of Rs 24.03 crore extended by the department of telecommunications(DoT) to two Hyderabad based suppliers, ARM and RES, in the purchase of 88,000 solar photo voltaic(SPV) paels between 1992 to 1996.In its report tabled in the Lok …
A local environmental group has threatened to complain to the World Bank over the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand's alleged failure to solve pollution problems at its lignite-fired Mae Moh power plant in Lampang. Jirapong Sonthitham, chairman of the Mae Moh Environment Protection Organisation, said yesterday his group would make …
The Badarpur Thermal Power Station supplied 13 per cent more power to the National Capital during April than the supply made in the same time last year.The energy consumption has increased by 7.5 per cent during this period.
Japan has signed a contract to lend $ billion to an international consortium building two light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea. The aid for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, or KEDO, was delayed for several months as Tokyo considered ending its funding for the project last August when North …
International nuclear inspectors have decided to return to Yogoslavia to inspect the nuclear reactor at Vinca and to insure that all its highly enriched uranium is still in place, inspectors say. David Kyd, a spokesman for the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, said the agency had decided to return despite …
China is planning to expand coal export while cutting coal production by 250 million tons to 1.1 billion tons this year in a bid to reduce the huge stockpiles and achieve balance between coal and supply and demand. Large state-owned coal mines, the backbone of the coal industry, will produce …
The Delhi government yesterday said the Supreme Court order restricting registration of petrol and diesel private non-commercial vehicles to 1,500 per month in the National Capital Region was "unimplementable" and it would soon move the court for its modification."The order directing registration of cars on a first-come-first-serve basis is unimplementable …
