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 …
Police use force on demonstrators : The Rs 1500-crore Maheshwar hydel project of S Kumars has run into deep trouble. The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) is locked in a pitched battle with the local police which is trying to clear the dam site of demonstrators.
Basel Action Network, an international coalition of NGOs, has criticised the US government for a governmental report that supports the continued export of US navy as also other vessels for extremely hazardous recycling operations in developing countries. In India, the primary destination of ships for scrapping is at the port …
Plans to build a natural-gas pipeline between Russia's Sakhalin Island and Japan's mainland could take giant strides forward amid continuing pressure on Japanese power generators to shift from coal to gas, say energy-industry experts. At the Kyoto Climate Change meeting, Japan pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 6% below …
The republic of Georgia, where the US is removing enriched uranium from a plant in Tbilisi for reprocessing in Britain, is home to another nuclear site that could be one of the most dangerous in the former Soviet Union. William Potter, director of the Centre for Non-Proliferation Studies in Monterey, …
China faces a growing shortage of water which will hit farmers, affect living standards and force a steep rise in grain imports in the medium term, according to Lester Brown, the US economist who created a stir three years ago with a stark warning about the ability of the world's …
Pakistan on Monday rejected a modified proposal by its independent power producers (IPPs) to sell power to India, saying that the tarifff was not acceptable to the government. The Pakistan government has however, asked the IPPs to come up with a fresh proposal particularly on the tariff, Asia Pulse said …
The Rs 46.40 crore Gujarat-Netherlands drinking water project designed to provide water to 79 villages in Talaja and Ghogha talukas of Bhavnagar district has been cleared.
The first 25MW power plant under the buy-back arrangement between Haryana State Electricity Board and private sector units is to be commissioned at Sihi Sikanderpur in Gurgaon district. About 40 such plants are to be set up in the state by private companies and they will provide electrictity to HSEB …
A secret deal between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair for the UK to reprocess and store 5kg of Georgian nuclear material outraged environmentalists after details were leaked. The decision to airlift the highly enriched uranium from a research reactor near Tblisi to a reprocessing facility at Dounreay in Scotland has …
The power ministry made a presentation to members of Parliament including the leaders of opposition to broadbase the debate on power sector. The presentation covered issues regarding the present power scenario, power supply situation, transmission and distribution problems and the state of financial health of state electricity boards.
Leading US rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has urged World Bank President James Wolfensohn to intervene in a bank-funded project in central India on grounds of human rights violation. It also asked for an indepandent review of the project and the alleged abuses it detailed in a report/letter to …
The Hindujas have received the much-awaited state guarnatees for their 1,040 MW Visakhapatnam power project in Andhra Pradesh. According to sources, the guarantee, along with the power purchase agreement (PPA) for the project, was cleared by Andhra Pradesh last week and has since been sent to the Centre.
A US human rights group is urging the World Bank to condition future loans for a major power project in India on ending abuses directed primarily against people displaced by the project. Human Rights Watch/Asia also wants the Bank's inspection panel become more involved in monitoring the project. Last December, …
Bangladesh is set to open the tap at its first privately developed natural-gas field, a flagship project in this impoverished country's attempt to woo foreign investment and fuel rapid economic growth. The Sangu development Project in the Bay of Bengal was set to begin trial production Wednesday, leading to commercial …
As part of its sustained campaign against vehicular pollution, the Indian Oil Corporation (Northern Region) launched a unique roof-top display system for monitoring and creating awareness among motorists about the fatal consequences of increasing carbon monoxide content in the air.The 10-ft carbon monoxide censor-fitted magnetic display board atop the 11-storeyed …
The Minister for Rural development and Panchayat Raj, Mr. M.P. Prakash, refuted the Opposition allegations in the Legislative Assembly that the government had allowed funds earmarked for augmenting drinking water supply to lapse. Mr. Prakash was replying to a notice of adjournment motion from the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. …
China and the United States signed a contract calling for the installation of two 350 mw generating units at the Yuzhou Power Plant in central China's Henan province.
Te state-owned Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporaion Ltd (Tidco) plans to add 1,000 mw power generating capacity in Tamilnadu using orimulsion as the fuel. Orimulsion is a natural bitumen dispersed in water and is produced in abundance in the Orinoco Belt in Venezuela.
Shoinghar village in Kulu district has been declared 'akshya urja gram' (renewable energy village) by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Government of India.
