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 …
Recently tonnes of oil slick and oil tar were washed off into the Arabian Sea, polluting half a dozen beaches in Goa. This is the second such incident to have occurred this year in India's top tourist destination. L U Joshi, chairperson, Goa Pollution Control Board blamed big ships, empty …
Oil storage tanks ruptured by hurricane Katrina are estimated to have dumped around 14 millions litres (ml) of crude oil into the Lower Mississippi river and surrounding wetlands in Louisiana, usa, threatening the region's environment. Some of this oil would also find its way into the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana …
a huge quantity of dead fish recently washed ashore at Karachi coast in Pakistan, with scientists attributing the mass death to pollution by the July 2003 oil spill from tanker Tasman Spirit, off the Karachi coast. They also blame dumping of by-catch by foreign trawlers into the sea for the …
The present work relates to isolation of promising Pseudomonas strain from the oil contaminated sites in service stations, Namakkal and then collecting a saline tolerant Pseudomonas strain from the coastal saline region of Rameswaram. These bacterial strains have been optimally characterized with regard to biodegradation of oil.
• Ukraine and Turkmenistan are going to propose the establishment of a consortium with Russia and Kazakhstan for transporting gas to Europe. This was announced by Ukraine's deputy prime minister Anatoly Kinakh after Turkmenistan's president Saparmurat Niyazov and Ukraine's president Viktor Yushchenko held talks during the latter's two-day official visit …
water distress: The Andhra Pradesh government has embarked upon a new programme to meet the water requirements of its parched villages. It is forcibly taking over private agricultural borewells to supply drinking water. Media reports quoted officials as saying that 528 borewells have already been taken over. The government is …
China is battling a massive oil spill, one of the worst in its history, following the collision between a German and a Panamanian ship in the South China Sea, near the Pearl River. The German ship, which was headed to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen when the accident occurred, …
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), a subsidiary of petroleum giant Royal Dutch/Shell, will have to clean up more than 250 oil spills linked to its operations in Nigeria's Rivers State. Rivers State governor Peter Odili recently made this known to SPDC managing director Basil Omiyi. Odili said …
sole authority: The Supreme Court (SC) of India has ruled that only the Union government can enforce laws on mineral oil resources, which include natural gas (NG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG). It decreed that states couldn't regulate the supply of gas through pipelines laid on their territory. The SC …
Where does fact end and fiction begin? An oil spill in the southern Nigerian swamp led to the destruction of over 200 hectares of forest and agricultural land. This is the third time in the last month that such an incident has occurred. Residents allege that Shell petroleum company is …
As a metaphor for the failure of bureaucracy, there can be nothing starker than thousands of dead creatures being thrown onshore by black waters when an oilspill takes place. If authorities are prepared, it is easy to avert any spill from blowing out of proportion. But there is always
new Hampshire has become the first state in the us to take on oil giants such as ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco over widespread contamination of its surface water and groundwater due to gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (mtbe). The state has sued 22 corporate entities, including mtbe manufacturers, refiners and …
hc cracks whip: Reprimanding the state-level committee over its inability to find zones for stone-crushers, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of all such units. The owners of the state's stone-crushing units may, however, approach the court for a vacation or modification of the order. Announcing that …
The crisis that hit the Karachi port in Pakistan on July 27 has steadily gained catastrophic proportions. Tasman Spirit, the 24-year-old Greek tanker that ran aground off the Karachi coast, was carrying 67,000 tonnes of crude oil at the time of the accident (see:
Ecuadorean Indians have sued oil conglomerate ChevronTexaco for a billion dollars. They have accused ChevronTexaco's unit, Texaco Petroleum Company, of discharging water contaminated with oil and metal salts such as mercury and cadmium into Amazon rivers from 1972 to 1992. They also allege that toxins seeped into the soil because …
To give succour to those affected by the huge slick from the oil tanker Prestige, Morocco has temporarily lifted its ban on Spanish fishing boats. The move should ease the strained relations between the nations. And for Galician fisherfolk, it is a timely respite.The vessel sank in the coastal waters …
oil is the lifeline of the world’s eco nomy. Dependence on oil has skewed incomes within nations and altered power relations among them. While oil provides multiple benefits to society, every stage of its lifecycle has harmful effects on health and environment. These are broad in scope and degree. The …
Frequent oil spills are wreaking havoc on the delta town of Okpella in Nigeria's Edo state. In the most recent incident, a pipeline of Nigerian National Petroleum Company
