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 …
The 1.5 million people left destitute by Burma's cyclone are in increasing danger of disease and starvation, experts said on Wednesday, but its ruling junta said no to a Thai request to admit more aid workers. Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej met his Burma counterpart Thein Sein in Rangoon for …
The Ukrainian prime minister cast a shadow over a strategically important hydrocarbon exploration project yesterday, openly accusing a US energy company leading the venture of holding backroom talks with Russia's Gazprom. Announcing her government had repealed an exploration licence off Ukraine's Black Sea coast for Houston-based Vanco Energy, Yulia Tymoshenko …
The long-forgotten Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline projects are back in active consideration. While the top leaders of these countries try to thrash out the details at a meeting at Islamabad in Pakistan, held from 22-24 April, they would also have to work out a system to maintain …
The much-talked about Indo-Iran JL gas pipeline project has been on the backburner for sometime now. However, there are alternative projects that are being explored, one such being the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (tapi) pipeline. Murli Deora, minister for petroleum and natural gas, had been to Pakistan to take part in discussions on …
SYDNEY: The $12 billion bid by BG Group of Britain for Origin Energy of Australia has put the Australian government, which must sign off on any deal, in a political and diplomatic quandary. BG has made a nonbinding cash offer for Origin that values the company at 14.70 Australian dollars, …
Experts from home and abroad asked Bangladesh on Wednesday to mine its huge coal reserves before its fast depleting natural gas reserves run out. They however urged the country to tap the resource carefully to avoid human tragedies associated with coal mining. The heavily populated Asian country faces a serious …
Reliance Industries is all set to acquire 78 per cent equity in the Krishna Godavari Gas Network Limited which will develop city gas distribution network across the state. In the first phase, the company would supply gas through pipelines to different categories including the domestic sector in 43 municipalities. With …
Gas pipeline from Iran is a high-stakes game by Bhagyashree Pande The scramble for oil resources poses a unique challenge to Indian oil diplomacy. It requires us to explore new engagements or alternatively imbue traditional political relationships with a new, hydrocarbon-related value, according to Talmiz Ahmed, the present Ambassador to …
With India having spurned U.S. advice on dealing with Iran, the one-day visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New Delhi on April 29 will have energy as the focus. The pending $22 billion LNG deal, the $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline and exploration and production joint ventures in Iran will …
The United Progressive Alliance government has done well to join the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline sponsored by the Asian Development Bank. But it should guard against the temptation of viewing the project as a substitute for the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline. Given high global oil prices and its growing energy needs, India …
Govt to announce hiked gas-run vehicle fares soon Frequent power cuts disrupt operations of a CNG filling station at the city's Moghbazar intersection yesterday. The queue of vehicles, however, stretched up to Ladies' Club on Eskaton Garden Road. Photo: STAR Ending a four-year hiatus, the government has almost doubled the …
The Petroleum Ministers of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India signed an agreement on Thursday for the $7.6 million-TAPI gas pipeline project, describing it as "financially and economically viable' despite the escalation in costs since the time it was first proposed. Two-day deliberations The implementation of the pipeline project will begin …
Pakistan, India, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan on Thursday agreed to start construction of a gas pipeline project involving the four nations in the year 2010. Ministers from all four countries had earlier held a two-day discussion starting on Wednesday to finalise the modalities. The second meeting of the technical working group …
Seeking to work aggressively to secure its aim of energy security, India has decided to formally join the strategic U.S.-backed $3.5 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project this week. Before leaving for Pakistan on Tuesday afternoon, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, Murli Deora told journalists here that the Indian delegation …
Aircraft makers, airlines, airports and air traffic controllers pledged on Tuesday to work towards "carbon-neutral growth" and reduce their industry's contribution to global warming. The declaration committed commercial players including Embraer, Bombardier, Boeing and Airbus to support cleaner fuels, improve fuel efficiency, better manage air routes, and work "to achieve …
Emission of natural gas through thousands of holes at Shyampur and Anandapur villages, Loiska Beel and Titas riverbed from Bakail and Shuhilpur areas near Brahmanbaria Titas Gas Field is posing threat to people and environment. A number of small holes that emerged three years ago have now expanded into big …
Oil could transform Brazil's economy. But not necessarily for the better THE legend is that Brazil never lives up to its vast potential. When Stefan Zweig, an exiled Austrian writer, said in 1941 of his new home that it was the "country of the future', popular humour quickly added the …
Russia's Gazprom took further steps to strengthen its hold on natural gas supplies to Europe on Thursday, signing a joint venture with Libya and saying it was in preliminary talks on a multibillion dollar project to pipe Nigerian gas to Europe across the Sahara. News of the two projects came …
Pakistan and Iran are likely to sign the gas pipeline project by April 25, even if India chooses to stay away for the time being, officials said. "If India does not want to join in the agreement immediately, it can join later. We will sign it bilaterally for the time …
By Roman Olearchyk in Kiev, Neil Buckley in Moscow and,Frances Williams in Geneva Ukraine is likely to be in a position to block Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organisation later this year, giving it significant leverage that it could use in natural gas supply talks or in retaliation …
