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 …
Lithuania is up in arms against a recent gas pipeline agreement between Germany and Russia. The pipeline under the Baltic Sea would disturb stockpiles of Hitler's chemical weapons lying on the bed of the Baltic Sea and would lead to an environmental disaster, warns Lithuanian prime minister Algirdas Brazauskas. Analysts …
India and Pakistan will jointly work on three trans-national natural gas pipeline projects: the Iran-Pakistan-India (ipi) project, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan project and the Gulf-South Asian project from Qatar to Pakistan, being extended to India. This was decided during the recent visit of Union petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar to Pakistan. "India …
natural gas / argentina Save mode A rgentina has embarked upon a unique energy conservation programme to make 4.1 million people decrease their natural gas consumption by five to 10 per cent. The scheme to enforce the "rational use' of natural gas gives a clear incentive, a government spokesperson said: …
India's total energy requirement has doubled over the last three decades: from 147.05 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) to 437.69 mtoe. I t's of course well known that indiscriminate burning of hydrocarbon fuels causes much global warming. According to several press reports, several Europeans died of oppressive heat last …
• 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 …
In a drastic reversal of posture, Bangladesh has set conditions for signing a memorandum of understanding (mou) on the construction of the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India gas pipeline. In the first meeting of the techno-economic working committee (tewc) on the gas pipeline, held in Yangon on February 24-25, 2005, Dhaka said it will …
What should be the price of natural gas in India? Till now, gas was pumped by the public sector company, the Oil and Natural Gas Commission and piped and sold by another public sector concern, the Gas Authority of India Limited. The government administered the price. But with private players …
With the government set to end GAIL's monopoly over gas pipelines, new players are finalising their own plans. In the bargain, gas as a fuel may become competitive. Sometime soon in the future, a 1,400-km gas pipeline will snake its way from Kakinada to Ahmedabad. But this won't be just …
india's urea industry has decided not to sign contracts with liquefied natural gas (lng) marketers Gas Authority of India Limited (gail) and Indian Oil Corporation (ioc) Limited. This is because it wants the stalemate over lng prices to get broken first. It may be noted that in the majority of …
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 …
Royal Dutch/Shell has done it again. For the second time in three months, the Anglo-Dutch energy giant has been compelled to downgrade its reserves estimates. The latest revision saw Shell sliver its estimates of "proven' reserves of oil and gas for 2003 by 220 million barrels and by 250 million …
on january 20, 2004, the Indian government announced its revised urea policy. The regulations, given the green signal by the cabinet committee on economic affairs, mainly entail urea units to use feedstock (fuel) of natural gas (ng) or liquefied natural gas (lng). The fertiliser industry has welcomed the development since …
in the light of the recent thaw in Indo-Pak relations, both Pakistan and Iran are mounting pressure on India to agree upon the much talked about overland gas pipeline project. At the recently concluded South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (saarc) summit in Islamabad, India's Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, …
though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board (nwb) was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at its very first meeting in New Delhi on October 15. Baalu allegedly thrust upon the board a decision to drastically reduce the compensation money …
us Conservation With environmentalists failing to hold back destructive activities in us national parks, musicians have decided to take on the crusade. Rock stars Alanis Morissette, Mike Diamond and Rob Morrow, along with Rick Rubin, have raised objections against the heedless drilling for oil and gas endorsed by a fraudulent …
In the year 1998, Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (gspc), one of the fastest-growing groups in the energy sector and the only state-government owned e&p; (Exploration and Production) company in the country, created a Special Purpose Vehicle, Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (gspl), to set up a comprehensive gas grid infrastructure in …
The greens have scored a major point with regard to the Camisea natural gas project, to be sited in the pristine forests of Peru. Environmental objections have led the us Export-Import Bank to reject us $213.6 million in loan guarantees for the venture. Conservationists have long contended that the gas …
Steamrollering objections from lawmakers of various coastal states, the us senate recently approved a plan to survey oil and natural gas deposits beneath the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Even as supporters of the idea claim the country has a right to know the extent and nature of its energy reserves …
This document contains text of the Electricity Act, 2003 [No. 36 OF 2003]. An Act to consolidate the laws relating to generation, transmission, distribution, trading and use of electricity and generally for taking measures conducive to development of electricity industry, promoting competition therein, protecting interest of consumers and supply of …
