Counter affidavit on behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in OA No 580 of 2022 Mukesh Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others. The report dated May 13, 2025 related to the Khadia Opencast Coal Mine Expansion Project located in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, and …
The growth rate of six of the country's key infrastructure industries' accelerated to 8.7 per cent in February against 7.6 per cent in the same month a year ago, reviving hopes that industrial production would speed up and help arrest the current economic slowdown. However, the overall growth rate of …
There seems to be a serious divide within the Planning Commission over the implementation of the country's first $8-billion coal-to-liquid (CTL) project by the Tata group and its South African partner Sasol. The inter-ministerial group (IMG) headed by Planning Commission member (energy) Kirit Parikh had in February-end, given its consent …
Meghalaya Mining and Geology Minister Donkupar Massar has said that the mining policy would have to be strictly implemented to regulate unscientific mining in the state. He, however, did not give an exact time-frame for the same. Massar, however, assured that coal mine owners would not be forced to adopt …
A transition period is essential for people to adopt the mooted mining ideas under the State's mining policy, feels Meghalaya Minister in-charge of Geology and Mining Donkupar Massar. Keeping in view the unscientific way of coal mining in the State, the Government is developing a mining policy that will enable …
Meghalaya Mining and Geology Minister Donkupar Massar has said that the mining policy would have to be strictly implemented to regulate unscientific mining in the state. He, however, did not give an exact time-frame for the same. Massar, however, assured that coal mine owners would not be forced to adopt …
India Inc is in hot pursuit of coal. Twenty-eight Companies have lined up for developing and running the two coal blocks of MahaGuj Collieries Ltd (MGCL) in Orissa. The Ambani brothers are there, through Reliance Industries and Reliance Energy, respectively. So are groups like Adani, GVK, Indiabulls, Bharat Forge and …
The trace metal levels were studied in soil and water of Tipong, Tirap and Tikak Collieries of Makum Coal Field, Tinsukia, Assam. The toxic trace metals were analyzed using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS). On the basis of the results obtained, it is clear that continuous mining operations have left permanent …
Rapid growth is exacting a heavy environmental price----------- China will not continue to grow at the same pace as it has done recently, or suck in as many raw materials, if its leaders get their way. The nth Five-Year Plan, which lays out their main economic goals for the period …
Coal is our cheapest and most abundant source of fossil-fuel energy. We probably have enough to keep the world powered for hundreds of years. Trouble is, the carbon emissions from burning it all would make the planet uninhabitable long before then. Is there a way to get the energy without …
POWER sector financing company Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and Railways technical advisory wing RITES, on Thursday, signed an MoU to jointly import coal from countries, including Africa, to ease scarcity of the fuel in view of rising demand by electricity generators. An SPV may be formed later in partnership with …
The Power and Energy Ministry has taken steps to begin the construction of the second and third coal fired power plants in Sampur and Velvuur in Trincomalee in June, a ministry official said. The proposed power plant in Sampur would add 500 MW to the national grid in 2012, the …
"It's the sun, stupid,' is probably how James Carville would summarize the message of Daniel G. Nocera, a chemist and professor of energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when he addressed a meeting on environmental issues that began in Aspen Wednesday night. The event is the first Aspen Environmental …
Awaits government nod for plan to develop mines in a strategic partnership with North American Coal Corporation. Reliance Power Limited, the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group(ADAG), plans to invest about Rs 2,500-3,000 crore over a period of three years, to develop three coal mines to fuel …
The announcement times with the entry of power players Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had a few cryptic announcements to make, while unfurling Budget 2008-09. And one of them was the decision to set up a coal regulator. Though he did not spell it out, the Centre's proposal is timed with …
The Mormugao Bachao Abhiyan (MBA) has commenced a signature campaign to protest against coal dust pollution in port town due to coal and coke handling at Mormugao Port at berth no 10, 11, 5A and 6A. It may be recalled that recently the Port Town witnessed massive protests against coal …
Coal miners are still working in the German town of Bottrop, but the government has decided to end mining in the country by 2018 because German coal is the most expensive in the world. That flow is part of a vast reorganization of the global coal trade that is making …
Oil at $100-plus a barrel incentivises search for all kinds of substitutes and/or alternative oil extraction technologies. Hopefully, the government's clearance of the Tata-Sasol coal to liquid (CTL) project
An inter-ministerial group (IMG) has cleared the $8-billion (Rs 32,000 crore) CTL project of the Tata group and its partner Sasol of South Africa, the world's largest producer of oil from coal. This will pave the way for similar projects awaiting government clearance, including one by Reliance Industries Ltd. Significantly, …
India's first coal-to-liquid (CTL) project rolls off. An inter-ministerial group (IMG) has cleared the $8-billion (Rs 32,000 crore) CTL project of the Tata group and its partner Sasol of South Africa, the world's largest producer of oil from coal. This will pave the way for similar projects awaiting government clearance, …
On mercury emissions: The US Environmental Protection Agency has violated the Clean Air Act by adopting a cap-and-trade rule that allowed oil and coal-fired plants to purchase credits to cover excessive emissions rather than installing pollution controls, a federal appeals court said. The lawsuit was filed by 18 US states …
