Stem the flow
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court told the state government and state pollution control board to submit proposals for reducing toxic effluents released by units located in the
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court told the state government and state pollution control board to submit proposals for reducing toxic effluents released by units located in the
May 27: Environmentalists are up in arms over the encroachment of wetlands. They maintain that wetlands serve to neutralise the toxins discharged through industrial effluents and domestic sewage, before letting the water percolate down into the earth to replenish aquifers.
June 22: The Greenpeace activists raided a trail field of genetically modified (GM) rice of a private multinational firm
July 28: While the state government is worried over the alarming increase in the price of red gram, agriculture officials are apprehensive over the utility of the seeds being supplied to farmers at 50 per cent subsidy.
For the past five years Hyderabad has been trying to clean the Hussain Sagar Lake, separating the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh. The efforts suffered yet another blow on June 20 when the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) denied permission to dredge the mouths of four nalas releasing waste water into the lake and to dispose it of at a nearby quarry.
compact fluorescent lamps (cfls) may become cheaper in India. The Union ministry of power is contemplating a scheme to popularise cfls. Called
BG group of the UK is keen on picking 25-30% stake in state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) Krishna Godavari and Mahanadi basin deepsea oil and gas exploration blocks off the east coast. BG has expressed interest to take 30% interest in KG basin Block KG-DWN-98/4, which ONGC had won in the first round of auction under New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) and 25% in Mahanadi basin Block MN-DWN-2002/2 that the state-run firm had won in NELP-IV. "We have approached the government for approval of the farm-in,' a company official said.
Lorry owners staged a protest against the short supply of diesel in Kadiri town of Anantapur district on Monday. They were facing a shortage of diesel for the last few weeks due to short supply to the town. Earlier, nearly one lakh litres of diesel used to be supplied to the town everyday, but this has come down to 50,000 to 60,000 litres, with no supply for one or two days. This resulted in a high demand for diesel.
Nellore, Oct. 31: The district authorities on Friday alerted the Oil and Natural Gas Commission after noticing fire coming out of a bore drilled in an aqua-culture pond in Mypadu, 30 km away from here. The blaze is emerging around 15 to 20 feet from the ground level and is blue in colour.
The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to restructure the equity pattern of the Krishna-Godavari Gas Network (KGGNL) to include Reliance Gas Corporation (RGC), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, as a majority partner of the consortium.
The Bombay High Court, which is hearing the dispute between Reliance Industries (RIL) and Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) over the allocation of gas from the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, asked the government
The Union government today filed a fresh affidavit in the Bombay High Court, which is hearing a dispute over supply of gas from Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, stating that any sale price less than $ 4.2 per mmBtu is not compatible with decisions taken by a ministerial panel.
Companies oppose electricity-saving methods as they may hit revenue In an unusual move, power utilities in the state expressed their unwillingness to take up power saving methods. They reasoned that the power-saving methods would adversely affect their incomes.
The government today said that it would not alter its plan for distribution of initial gas output from Reliance Industries
The much-awaited meeting of the petroleum and power ministries officials and Reliance Industries (RIL) for the allocation of gas from the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin is slated to be held in Delhi later this week.
GADIMOGA (E. Godavari District): All is set for commencement of natural gas production from the KG-D6 block of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India
AP, GUJARAT, WEST BENGAL GET APPROVAL TO SET UP PETROCHEMICAL HUB SPREAD OVER 250 SQ KM NEW DELHI The Union Cabinet on Monday approved proposals to set up petroleum chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIR)
New Delhi: With the union cabinet clearing proposals of the West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat governments for setting up Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Regions (PCPIRs) in their territorial domain, a major hurdle has been removed in the way of investment worth more than Rs 4,50,000 crore in PCPIRs, chemicals minister Ram Vilas Paswan said today.
Significant surface radioactive anomalies, with values up to 0.177% eU3O8 (n = 9), located during 1992 along the non-conformity contact of basement granitoid with the Srisailam Formation, around Chitrial village, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh, led to the establishment of a sizeable uranium deposit by recent exploration.
To decide on the allocation of natural gas from RIL