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 …
ENERGY plays an important role in accelerating economic growth inasmuch as it serves as an important element in providing food, shelter, healthcare facilities, safe water, sanitation, education and access to jobs to either an individual or group or the whole community. Sustainable human development, which means economic growth through equitable …
IMPHAL, July 31: A 10-member Bangladeshi parliamentary delegation visited the Tipaimukh dam in Manipur on Friday following the opposition in Dhaka over the hydel project
India yesterday assured Bangladesh that there would be no diversion of water flow due to the Tipaimukh hydropower project on the Barak river in Manipur. The assurance came during a meeting between Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and the 10-member Bangladesh parliament delegation at the Shram-Shakti Bhawan that houses …
A White Paper prepared by an expert agency recommends setting up two nodal bodies - Sikkim Hydro Power Corporation Ltd (SHPC) and Sikkim Transmission and Distribution Corporation Ltd (STDC), to better harness the State
The new urgency in augmenting power generation to meet the huge supply-demand gap of 1011 per cent, is evident in the high voltage leap that the NHPC Ltd is making towards achieving "the biggest growth of 9,400 MW in just four years by 2012-13." What is significant about this quantum …
The construction of the tallest dam in India on river Dibang in Arunachal Pradesh has been delayed. Reason: the promoters of the project, central government owned National Hydro Power Corporation (nhpc), did not submit the proposal, for environmental clearance, in time. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has now …
Chairperson of expert committee on hydro-power projects resigns the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) will change members or heads of expert committees if any conflict of interest is perceived in clearing projects, said union minister Jairam Ramesh. Ramesh said two of the eight expert panels would be reconstituted …
India yesterday assured Bangladesh of not building any irrigation project downstream of the Tipaimukh hydro power structure in Manipur. Indian ministries of power, external affairs and water resources conveyed the message to the parliamentary delegation from Bangladesh in an hour-long interaction at the South Block of the Secretariat Building in …
British Columbia is still committed to promoting clean energy projects despite taking a blow on Tuesday from its own power utility regulator, the Canadian province's energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. Blair Lekstrom, British Columbia's minister of energy, mines and petroleum resources, said his government has …
The collapse of the Coffer Dam for the 330 MW Alaknanda Hydro Power Project does not come as a surprise to observers of Uttarakhand's hydropower development programme.
The government yesterday donated houses to 495 families who were displaced by the construction of the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project, inaugurated by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President
A weak monsoon looks set to leave northeastern India high and dry. In a striking paradox, the region that boasts the once-wettest Cherrapunji and is nestled among verdant hills faces chronic rain deficiency. Manipur has a deficit of 67 per cent, while Arunachal Pradesh, the least affected, is deficient by …
According to the website of the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) which is in charge of the Tipaimukh Project, this project will be one of the largest Hydro Electric Project in Eastern India to date and will be located 500 meters downstream of the confluence of the Tuivai …
Four construction workers died and more than 50 were missing on Thursday after a landslide destroyed a dam project in Sichuan Province, in the latest of a series of disasters caused by heavy rains in southwest China. The downpours set off a landslide at the Changheba hydropower plant in Kangding, …
The existing energy crisis can easily be solved by proper utilisation of alternate energy sources. Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali said this on Thursday. This could easily be achieved by converting all the streetlights, park lights and traffic signals into solar energy. Solar energy plants are used …
Four construction workers are dead and more than 50 missing after a landslide took out a dam project in Sichuan province, in the latest of a series of disasters caused by heavy rains in southwest China. Flooding along the steep mountains that witnessed last year's earthquake has brought more misery …
JORHAT, July 23: The North East Affected Area Development Society (NEAADS), a Jorhat based voluntary organization has opposed the construction of mega dam projects to be build up in the hills of Arunachal Pradesh on the river Debang. The organization also protests the construction of Lower Suwansiri Hydro Electric Project …
Mumbai-based ship manufacturing and repairing company ABG Shipyard Limited has bagged three out of the last five remaining hydroelectric projects in the state for which bids were invited last year. A new entrant into the power sector, the company quoted the highest free power, over and above the mandatory free …
