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 …
Germany may moot a surcharge on electricity bills to help fund a withdrawal from nuclear power. Werner Muller, economics minister, said $1.5bn year could be raised through a surchage of 0.5 pfennings per kilowatt hour of electricity. The income could be used for investment in greener energy conservation.
Domestic electricity prices in the UK are the fifth cheapest in the European Union in spite of strong pound, but industrial prices are less competitive, according to a study published. Research by the Electricity Association of Britain highlights big differences in power tariffs and the structure of domestic electricity industries …
The Dabhol Power Company has partially shut down its plant due to a technical snag. One of the three units of 230 mw in the power station, has been non-operational for the last three weeks.
With less than five months to go before the year 2000, a project financed by Western Governments has just begun to try to fully immunize the 14 aging, trouble-prone nuclear reactors in Ukraine against the Y2K computer problem.
The name De-Nox may not ring a bell yet but could well become a household name among motorists and fleet owners in Malaysia. The smoke emission control system reduces a car emissions to the latest European standards--Euro II and III and has been tested by Sirim, Road Transport Department (JPJ) …
Norway led by Protestant priest as prime minister, has been struggling to use its oil wealth for lofty goals. This year it failed in getting approval to ban tobacco investments from its NKr183bn oil fund. In a second defeat, the government lost its proposal to use its shareholder voting rights …
Geologists use the term "compression environment" to describe the complex rock formation in the oil rich Colombian department of Casanare. It could equally be applied to conditions above ground. Increasing social tension and guerrila violence is making BP's experience in the region - site of one of Latin America's biggest …
The sixth annual general meeting of Numaligarh Refinery Limited was held today at its registered office at Guwahati. The meeting was presided over by Mr U Sundararajan, Chairman, NRL and CMD, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL).
Abdullah Arif, Senior Vice-Chairman, and Pervaiz Ihsan, Vice-Chairman of the Site Association of Industry (SAI) have taken strong exception to the proposal of Wapda that the Pakistan government should ban self-generation of electricity by local industries. They said that power supply reliability could only be achieved through self-generation because the …
Tungabhadra Steel Products, a subsidiary of Bharat Yantra Nigam has made a foray into generation of renewable energies with the commissioning of mini Hydel power plant at Saundatti, Belgaum. The company is the first public sector unit to augment pollution free power generation through renewable energy resources in India.
NBA : The controversial Maheshwar hydro-electric project on the Narmada in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh has become embroiled in a fresh controversy. The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) says the construction company is "fraudulently" purchasing land from the people. The NBA says the project agreement stipulates the State Government will …
Exxon Corp., one of the few major Western oil companies that was actively exploring in Russia, has suspended drilling amid an environmental and legal dispute with the government. The Texas company said that it canceled its drilling activities after the State Ecological Committee failed to endrose Exxon's drilling plan for …
The Rajasthan unit of People's Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL) has expressed concern over reports that the State has been identified for long-term dumping of nuclear waste from all over the country. This would expose the people in Rajasthan to the serious hazards of nuclear rediation, it says.
In a bid to streamline the sale of waste oil which is categorised as a hazardous waste, the Central Pollution Control Baord(CPCB) has directed the State Pollution Control Boards to issue authorisation certificates only to those persons who have requisite pollution control facilities for treatment of effluents and control measures …
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Parambikulam Aiyar Project (regulation of water-supply) Act, 1993, which seeks to supply water on a rotational basis once in two years to each zone in four specified zones of Coimbatore district.The water would be used to irrigate about 3,77,152 acres covered …
India has joined hands with the US and Russia in two separate atmospheric exploration projects to study the fast-depleting ozone layer over the tropics and extra-tropical troposphere. Under the Indo-Russian and Indo-US programmes undertaken early this year, Indian scientists tried to gauge the variations in atmospheric ozone and aerosole contents …
Members of the Pakistan National Council of IUCN (World Wide Fund for Nature) and other organizations have contended that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of oil and gas exploration in Kirthar National Park in Sindh is "wholly illegal" and must not under any circumstances be allowed to take place.
The Greens party broke France's summer political lull yesterday with a warning that it would quit the government if the Socialist-led cabinet pushed ahead with plans to replace ageing nuclear plants with new reactors. "This would mean the end of the plural coalition," the Greens' spokesman Denis Baupin told Reuters.
The National Thermal Power Corporation has decided to set up one more effluent treatment plant and a water treatment plant under its 2,000 MW talcher expantion plan for preservation of ecology.
