The sounding board
At the onset of the Green Rating Project, cse set up a project advisory panel ( pap ) comprising industry leaders, judges, research and development experts, policymakers, academicians,
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Crude oil, gas output falls due to closure
The production of crude oil from the country's sedimentary basins fell marginally by 0.3 per cent to 2.89 million tonne (mt) in January this year compared with 2.90 mt in January 2007. The output was, however, marginally higher than the 2.88 mt in December, data released by the petroleum ministry showed. The output of natural gas in January was also down by 2.53 per cent to 2.69 billion cubic metres (bcm) compared with the 2.76 bcm in January 2007. Compared with the 2.85 bcm gas produced in December 2007, the fall in January this year was higher at 5.61 per cent. The decline in crude oil and gas production in January was due to a two-week shutdown of a production platform at Bombay High, the country's largest oil producing field. In the April-January period of the current financial year, crude oil production was 0.28 per cent higher at 28.46 mt compared with 28.38 mt in the same period of the last financial year. Natural gas production was up by 1.7 per cent to 26.89 bcm from 26.44 bcm in April-January 2006-07. In January this year, the country's oil refineries processed 13.67 mt crude oil, 5.31 per cent higher than the 12.98 mt in the year-ago month. The rise in refinery production is primarily due to private refiner Essar Oil. The quantity of oil processed at the company's refinery rose almost 161 per cent in January after the full 10.5-million-tonne-per-annum capacity was commissioned in the later part of the month. The refineries, on an average, utilised 108.4 per cent of their capacity in January 2008, against 106.9 per cent in the year-ago month. In December 2007, the capacity utilisation was 103.5 per cent. In the April-January period of the current financial year, refinery output increased 7.30 per cent to 129.78 mt, compared with 120.94 mt in the same period of the last fiscal. Average refinery capacity utilisation during the period was, however, lower at 104.2 per cent compared with 106.7 per cent in the year-ago period.
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Solar energy is everybody's business
Solar mission is too important to let doubtful dealings hijack it. In public perception the renewable energy sector is a do-good sector that promises environment-friendly and affordable energy. It is
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PUNJAB: Ignorance is bliss
The situation is, if anything, worse in the north Indian states like Punjab, where many industrialists acknowledge they are not even aware of the possibility of their products being toxic or of solid
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One small step.....
Industry gets a new friend, philosopher and evaluator the Centre for Science and Environment s Green Rating Project, which will be the first instrument in the country to measure industrial firms on the basis of their eco friendliness
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Cacophony in Telecom sector
Tug-of-war between basic service providers (MTNL, Reliance, Tata) and cellular operators has intensified after wireless in local loop (WLL) launch
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Red alert in Chhattisgarh
Land acquisition is at the centre of intense political and social disputes in the tribal hinterland of Chhattisgarh. On the one hand, Naxal extremists enforce their version of justice by opposing land alienation. But the new state has its compulsion