Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
MORE than a million hectares of mountain ranges, rivers and valleys in the rocky mountains of British Columbia are to be surrounded by a buffer zone. As a result, al! development in the area will take place under strict guidelines. Known as Muskwa-Kechika, the area is larger than Switzerland. This …
THE COMPLETE PICTURE: Televisions all over the world display only 88 per cent of the image broadcast by TV stations. Now, Korean-based electronics company, Samsung is developing televisions that will display the missing 12 per cent. Called HiTron TV sets, these televisions are 2.5 centimetres wider than usual. Conventional TV …
flooding with milk: After successfully pioneering a cooperative milk movement in India, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is now launching another
coal project: The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) will sign the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Videocon Power Ltd for its coal-based project in Chennai. The cost of the project is Rs 4,423.80 crore. The Department of Coal has allotted a mining block in the Talcher coalfields to Videocon for …
Scientists from the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Calcutta, have discovered a phenomenon which could lead to a reliable method for predicting earthquakes. They have reported that the rate of production of the natural gas helium from Agni Kundu, the hot water spring in Bakreswar village in West Bengal, could …
Now people can have the comfort of a fireplace in their homes without having to worry about air pollution, Superior Fireplace Co of California, US, has designed a natural-gas fireplace which gives natural bright yellow flames of a traditional wood fire, unlike other such units which burn with a blue …
the government of Assam, in an attempt to gain further control over the natural resources of the state, has proposed the introduction of a bill that aims to bring natural gas and gas plants under its purview. While disclosing this in the assembly on March 17, industries minister Gunin Hazarika …
the world's only known natural habitat of the rare Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) could be threatened by Thailand's bid to bring natural gas from offshore fields in Myanmar. The size of a bumble bee and weighing only two grams when fully grown, the bat is considered to be the …
The much-touted Yadana gas pipeline project in Burma has run into trouble. Burmese political exiles have filed a lawsuit in a US district court against the California-based Unocal Corp, asking it to stop work in the US $1.2 million natural-gas project and to compensate the affected people. They claimed that …
The much-hyped project to export natural gas from Burma's Yadana field to Thailand is under fire from Thai environmentalists. They are concerned about the negative impact of the project on wildlife in Thailand's already depleted forests. According to an environmental impact assessment undertaken on behalf of the project's Thai operators, …
QUITE A SAVING: Those suffering from skin cancer will now have to dish out less money for their medical bills. Scientists from the Cancer Research Campaign in Britain have invented a light emission device called Paterson Lamp that cures the disease at a lOth of the price of laser therapy. …
IN my innocence of the false charges f face here, in my utter conviction, I call upon the Ogoni people, the people of the Niger delta, and the oppressed ethnic minorities of Nigeria to stand up now and fight fearlessly and peacefully for their rights," said Ken Saro-Wiwa, the 54-year-old …
Ken Saro-Wiwa, the man whoSe death has forced the international community to confront its myriad inherent weaknesses, was born in Bori, near Port Harcourt, capital of River State in Nigeria. He has been variously described as an author, environmentalist and leader of the Ogoni people; he was all this and …
NATURAL gas is formed under the earth's surface when organic debris, under conditions of high temperature and pressure breaks down into methane and other smaller hydrocarbon molecules. Similar conditions simulated in the laboratory did not yield the requisite percentage of methane in the end product. Whereas natural gas contains 80 …
HE green bug has finally bitten the Supreme Court. In a recent statement on March 30, Chief Justice A M Ahmadi declared that all official cars belonging to the court would soon run on compressed natural gas (CNG) instead of petrol or diesel. Natural gas is a gaseous hydrocarbon fuel …
The Government of India announced its decision in 1973 to set up a 6 million tonne per year Petroleum Oil Refinery at Mathura under the Indian Oil Corporation of India. Some apprehensions were expressed about the possible adverse effects on the historic monuments in the Agra-Mathura region from the gaseous …
Union minister of state for petroleum and natural gas Satish Sharma and the chief ministers of the southern states met in Bangalore on March 26 to establish a natural gas network for these states. Put together, the states are expected to have an aggregate demand of 40 million cubic metres …
SCIENTISTS say the increase in the atmospheric concentration of methane -- a major greenhouse gas -- is fast levelling off (New Scientist, Vol 140, No 1991). Evidence of a halt in methane rise comes from measurements of atmospheric gases made at 26 stations around the world. In the 1970s, the …
