Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of President Municipal Committee Thathri VS Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir dated 03/12/2024. Joint committee report dated November 25, 2024 has been filed through the Central Pollution Control Board. Project proponents stated that they want to file an objection to …
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Thursday approved 24 mega projects including the Diamer-Bhasha Dam. The committee also gave relevant authorities three months to resolve issues related to demarcation and royalty of the dam. The total cost of the Diamer-Bhasha project is Rs 894.257 billion and …
Australia's government struck agreement with opponents on Wednesday for 20 percent of the country's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, unlocking a $22 billion investment rush and reviving hopes of a later emissions trade deal. In a peace offering in its row with the government over climate-change policy, …
Aug. 19: Contentious land issue triggered violent clashes between the police and the local villagers at Andal in Durgapur which left over a dozen people, including five policemen injured and three police vehicles gutted. The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) is building a 1,000-MW hydel power project for which it needs …
Ministry of Water and Power has constituted a four-member Joint Committee on Hydropower Public Private Partnership. The committee has been tasked to identify policy, legal and regulatory issues and recommend implementation mechanism and security package in order to attract private sector investment in hydropower sector. According to the notification Wednesday, …
Thermal Power Plants Bear Extra Load As Hydel Plants Run At About 40% Capacity Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI AFTER ravaging the farm sector, poor rainfall now threatens to bring hydel power plants to a complete halt as most of them are running at about 40% capacity, or plant load factor, …
Shimla: The state Assembly today unanimously adopted a private member resolution, urging the Centre to allow the state to impose a cess on the hydropower generated to meet the fiscal deficit. It also sought consent for the Bill passed earlier by the House in this regard which was pending with …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The Union government has called a meeting of the Cauvery basin States here on Monday to thrash out differences between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the 1,150-megawatt Cauvery Hydro Power Project (CHPP). To be chaired by Union Power Secretary Harishankar Brahma, the meeting is expected to be …
Congo must improve governance in its energy sector to attract investment and exploit its full potential, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Monday. Speaking at the site of the Inga hydroelectric power project built some 30 years ago by late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, and which the World Bank …
Amit Jain : The capital markets seem to have returned to a growth trajectory with the Sensex touching a high of 16,000. The primary market is also seeing a flurry of activity with the power sector being the centre of action. Adani Power
It is not just crops and fruits which would suffer on account of drought but power generation in the state was likely to be hit as it was expected that generation would be far less than the target for the year. This was stated by Chief Minister PK Dhumal in …
India claimed on Thursday that the stage of differences or disputes on controversial Kishenganga had not arisen and the issue could be further discussed at Commission level. The Indian Minister of State for Water Resources, Vincent H. Pala informed Rajya Sabha in respond to a question the Kishenganga Hydro-electric project …
After centuries of praying for a local glacier to stop growing, Swiss villagers are now seeking an audience with Pope Benedict to get his blessing for prayers against the global warming that is causing it to recede. In 1678, the inhabitants of the Alpine villages of Fieschertal and Fiesch made …
Protests against mega dams in Arunachal Pradesh continue to mount, with several student bodies of both Assam and Arunachal as well as environmental groups resorting to stirs against the Centre
It is the favourite mantra of policy makers, politicians and prescribing economists. And they chant it relentlessly as an antidote to recession and a supplement to boost growth. Tragically though, for all the chanting of the infrastructure mantra the Government has not been able to change the religion of sloth …
Arunachal Pradesh Government has entered into a joint venture with the Jindal group to develop the 4,500 mw Etalin multi-purpose hydro-electric project, the biggest in the country. Announcing this at a press conference here yesterday, the Chairman of the Hydro-power Development Corporation of Arunachal Pradesh, T G Rimpoche said the …
