WE ALL know the critical role played by oil and gas in the economic development of a country. Fuels such as PDS kerosene and domestic LPG are essential commodities, next only to food, and impact the life of common man in a major way. Therefore, managing the supplies and prices of sensitive petroleum products is a key policy issue for the government.
With creating awareness of environment among people, the Delhi Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dikshit, today exhorted them to come forward to preserve and conserve environment of the earth planet. She further exhorted them to make rational use of natural resources to ensure better future. She said that her government would introduce water-harvesting scheme in 205 schools in the Capital for which an amount of Rs 40 crore has been earmarked.
Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri has said that the government will soon announce a policy for pollution control and energy conservation. She was speaking at a recently held Earth Day Carnival, jointly organised by Promoloon and UHU at Sindbad Kids park in connection with World Environment Day. Social Welfare Minister Begum N D Khan, was also present on the occasion. Shazia Marri underlined the need for a joint struggle to solving these problems which were the outcome of population explosion in the country.
With gasoline prices at record highs, a station in Nashville posted prices in terms other than dollars and cents on Sunday. Gasoline sells currently for $3.61 a gallon on average, AAA says. Oil jumped to another record on Tuesday, and the government said it expected gasoline prices to peak at a national average of $3.73 a gallon in June, just as the summer driving season kicks off. )
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan on Sunday commissioned the 25 MW Neriamangalam Extension Scheme (NES). Dedicating it to the nation, the Chief Minister stressed the need to focus on ensuring energy security for the State. Energy security was as important for the State as its food security, he said. The government was committed to adding an additional 500 MW to the annual power generation in the State, during the coming three years.
Govt Tries Balancing Act To Protect Consumers And Burdened Oil Companies Rajeev Jayaswal NEW DELHI THE government is working on a dual strategy of fuel price hikes coupled with duty cuts to shield consumers and cash-strapped oil companies.
As many as 91 projects in water sector were being implemented while 16 electricity supply schemes were underway in various parts of Balochistan, official sources told APP here on Sunday. These projects aimed at providing clean drinking water and electricity supply facilities to the people in the province, the sources said, adding that the government would construct 54 more small dams in different districts aimed at resolving water scarcity problems in the province.
A government white paper issued Tuesday calls on households to save energy as a means of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. According to the paper, the ratio of carbon dioxide emissions in Japan from the household sector compared with overall emissions of such global warming gases is lower than in the United States and Europe. However, household energy consumption in Japan surged 44 percent in 2005 from 1990, the white paper on the environment and recycling says.
Consumers have not taken too kindly to the government's decision to raise the price of LPG cylinders by Rs 50 in a single stroke. With inflation touching an all-time high, it has anyway been a tough balancing act for homemakers to juggle their household expenses and the gas price rise is bound to upset their budgets even further.
Says It Was Inevitable In Wake Of Global Spiral Pointing to a sharp escalation in global rise in oil p r i c e s and food and commodities, P r i m e Minister Manmoh a n Singh on Wednesday said that a rise in fuel prices was "inevitable' even as the government has done its utmost to impose only a "moderate' burden on the people.
Pakistan government has set an ambitious tagret of around $20 billion as foreign investment in the energy sector, for which it is actively interacting with top companies in the USA. Highlighting the salient features of the upcoming energy conference. The Minister of Information, Sherry Rehman, told Business Recorder that the international energy roundtable would be instrumental in attracting maximum foreign investment in the energy sector through institutional and legal support to foreign investment.
Speakers and experts at a workshop on "Ways and Means to Overcome Energy Crisis in Pakistan' have urged the government to find other means to explore, exploit and conserve energy resources, if the country is to overcome the ongoing power crisis. The workshop, held at the Abdul Qadeer Khan auditorium of the Federal Urdu University for Science and Technology, will continue till Wednesday.
Implementation Of 2nd Phase Of Accelerated Power Development & Reforms Plan Okayed THE government on Thursday signalled revival of distribution sector reforms by approving the long-pending implementation of remodelled second phase of Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (APDRPII) that aims to bring down aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses of utilities to 15% within five years.
The Ministry of Power is concerned with perspective planning, policy formulation, processing of projects for investment decision, monitoring of the implementation of power projects, training and manpower development and the administration and enactment of legislation in regard to thermal, hydro power generation, transmission and distribution.
The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas is entrusted with the responsibility of exploration and production of oil and natural gas, their refining, distribution and marketing,import, export, and conservation of petroleum products and Liquified Natural Gas.
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Even as Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora on Thursday sought an increase in the quantum of oil bonds issued to oil marketing companies, the government seemed to be indecisive on re-visiting fuel prices despite the Indian basket averaging around $58.93 a barrel.
The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has introduced energy conservation awards to encourage energy efficiency in large and small-scale industry, Government and commercial buildings, educational institutions, agriculture sector, poultry farms and domestic sector.
A turf-war between the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Developmental Council (Leh) and the Jammu and Kashmir government has unnecessarily delayed the work to tap the geothermal energy potential of the Changthang area in Leh district.
The 11<sup>th</sup> plan has set what industry considers a modest target of 10,000 mw capacity addition in five years. Everyone agrees that much more is possible. But for this to happen, big time, the business of wind must be into energy generation and not just encashing credits because of investment subsidies.
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government will strengthen the electricity transmission and distribution system in Karnal district under which various developmental activities would be completed with a massive investment of over Rs.100 crore within the next 18 months, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced on Friday.
