Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
OTTAWA—Under attack from opposition politicians, environmentalists and aboriginal groups for giving Enbridge Inc. ENB.T -1.12% the green light to build a pipeline linking the Alberta oil sands and the Pacific Coast, Canada's top officials said Wednesday it was up to the company to meet a series of conditions before construction …
The Canadian government’s approval of a major pipeline running from the Alberta oil sands to a new port on the coast of British Columbia has intensified opposition from aboriginal groups, environmentalists and community advocates. The Northern Gateway project, which the government approved on Tuesday as expected, would send heavy, oil-bearing …
PANAJI: A pilot study by the national institute of oceanography (NIO) has found that the environmental sensitivity index (ESI) can serve as a road map to combat an oil spill and the consequent formation of tar balls. ESI is a colour-coded map that shows a shoreline's vulnerability to an oil …
Every year June 8 is observed as the World Ocean Day to underscore a need to protect the great body of salt water, which covers 70.78 per cent of the earth’s surface. Over two-thirds of the surface of our planet is covered with water. Although this great water expanse is …
A U.S. federal judge has denied ExxonMobil Corp's bid to dismiss a government lawsuit and instead ordered the oil giant to hand over documents going back decades on a pipeline that ruptured last year and inundated an Arkansas town with oil. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker ruled on Tuesday the …
PANAJI: Taking note of the TOI campaign on tar balls washing up on the beaches of Goa, chief minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday directed Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to conduct a study on the subject. GSPCB chairman Jose Manuel Noronha confirmed the study and said, "The origin of …
The removal of the Costa Concordia threatens to pollute the pristine waters around the Italian island of Giglio where the ship capsized two years ago, according to a new report which has angered local officials and environmentalists. The technical report prepared by the ship's parent company, Costa Cruises, says that …
Ben van Beurden, the chief executive of Shell, will go to Nigeria this week to try to restore his firm's tarnished reputation by winning local support for a clean-up strategy to tackle old oil spills in the Delta. The Dutchman, who took over at the company at the start of …
BP Plc (BP.L) on Wednesday asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to allow the company to avoid making payments to businesses demanding compensation for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill while litigation continues. The company acted after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction …
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC)’s agreement to pay $5.15 billion for pollution cleanup across the U.S. was approved over objections from people who said their contamination-related illnesses won’t be properly compensated. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan L. Gropper in Manhattan today approved the settlement, which the federal government called the largest distribution …
The Chennai Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has on Tuesday allowed Vizhinjam port authorities to go ahead with the tendering process, including calling for Requests for Qualification (RFQ), to build the port superstructure and operate the proposed deep-water container transhipment port. The NGT passed the order while hearing …
Advocate appearing for the petroleum corporation listed out the short- and long-term measures taken Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) on Tuesday filed an ‘action taken’ report with the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Bench, in connection with the oil leak incident in north Chennai last year. The action taken report, …
BP Plc (BP/) faces billions of dollars in additional payments after failing again to convince an appeals court that the company is being forced to pay claims that aren’t directly related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The decision leaves BP with two options -- pay claims the …
Crews have vacuumed up most of about 10,000 gallons of crude oil that sprayed into Los Angeles streets after a high-pressure pipe burst. Fire Capt. Jaime Moore says oil spilled early Thursday over approximately half a mile and was knee-high in some parts of the industrial area of Atwater Village …
Federal regulators have announced an $875,000 settlement with Chevron related to a pair of Utah oil spills in recent years. The Environmental Protection Agency announced the settlement Monday. Chevron spokesman Gareth Johnstone says the company has agreed on the settlement terms, resolving each of the federal penalties it faced in …
The government has joined hands with IIT Bombay to implement cost-effective solar powered lighting solutions for rural population that will help save 36 million litres of kerosene and slash the subsidy bill on the polluting fuel by about . 30,000 crore a year. The scheme will be implemented jointly by …
Bacteria bloom feeding on leaked methane after Deepwater Horizon explosion declined abruptly in June 2013 Scientists on Sunday said that methane which leaked from the 2010 oil-rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico persisted in the sea for months beyond a presumed cleanup of the gas by marine microbes. As …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to depute a team of officers to inspect a disputed area in upper Assam where Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) pipeline laying activities have allegedly damaged a tea garden area and two streams – Rajgarjan and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of R. N. T. Plantations Ltd. V/s. Union of India & Ors. dated 06/05/2014 regarding discharge of effluents/sludge, crude oil and other waste materials into the Rajgarjan and Gohainjan streams/man-mad drains by ONGC and whether these drains …
Britain's high court will on Tuesday hold a pre-trial hearing ahead of a court case due to be held next year brought by around 15,000 members of Nigeria's Bodo community against oil giant Shell. The residents are seeking compensation from the British-Dutch company over two oil spills in 2008, having …
