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 Madras High Court has pulled the brakes on the Kolli Hills hydroelectric power project in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. The court directed the Tamil Nadu electricity board to stop work on the project and directed the board to seek permission from the Centre for clearance of the project. …
yamdrok Tso is Tibet's third largest lake, a jewel of turquoise brilliance lying 120 km south of Lhasa at a height of 4,445 m. As a closed lake system, its brackish waters have a mineral content just below the upper boundary of normal freshwater, fed by snow melt and limited …
Plans are afoot to build the world's largest floating power station which will supply 450 MW of power to energy-starved Pakistan. The plant would cost US $402 million, 95 per cent of which would be raised through a long-term loan provided by the US maritime administration. Westinghouse Electric Corporation of …
the World Bank's (wb) staff appraisal report (sar) of the Orissa Power Sector Restructuring Project (opsrp) of April 19, 1996, seems to have emerged as a bundle of contradictions as far as the Indravati hydropower project is concerned. Orissa is the first state in India to get a wb aid …
An environmental survey by the national environment secretariat, the division of power and the forestry division of Bhutan, found that nearly 3,737 tonnes of carbon dioxide, 13.2 kg of methane and 143 tonnes of carbon monoxide are released into the atmosphere by the areas of Kilung, Tongling and the village …
CHINA's hopes of completing the largest hydroelectric project in history, received a temporary setback when the Export- Import Bank of the us refused to help finance the Three Gorges dam on May 30. The bank's board voted against issuing letters of interest - which allows foreign countries to buy us …
LESS than a year after winning the battle to halt the construction of a mammoth hydropower scheme in Nepal, NGO activists say the lessons from the "suspended Arun iii megaproject have yet to be fully learned". After the World Bank (WB) suspended the more thkn us $1 billion-project in August …
A CRUSHING blow has been dealt to Argentine President Carlos Menem's grandiose plans to build a huge hydro- electric project along the Argentine- Paraguayan border. Residents of Misiones province in Argentina, in a near unanimous move, voted against the building of the 3,000 mw Corpus project on environmental grounds, The …
AN UNUSUAL trade between three desperate countries in the central Asian region has meant that water will be bartered for gas and coal. The republics of Kyrgyzstan) Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan entered into an agreement in the first week of April to improve cross border deliveries of water and energy. The …
Yet another fracas centering around a dam: the Malaysian government is going ahead with its plans to construct the Bakun hydro- electric dam on the island of Borneo. While the Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced the benefits of the dam in a seminar held recently on the project, the …
More than 50,000 people will pay for the nation'., power crisis. The Vietnamese government announced it., plans to displace a large number of people from a remote northern province to make way for a big hydroelectric power project. According to an informed source, thousands of hectares of forests and farmlands …
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In what is termed as the world's highest by electric power Station and also an exi smalls"le power plants, the 600 KW project in Thame, at an altitude of 12,000 feet near the Mount Everest base camp was recently inaugurated in Nepal. The completion of this project would perhaps make …
The Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project in China, once promoted as a major money-spinner for multinationals, is now turning out to be a liability for Beijing. The international financial agencies as well as private investors are steering clear of the project, which has been at the recieving end of a …
Danny Denzongpa, who acted the villain in countless Hindi films, is playing a hero in real life. He is gathering support for a group called the Concerned Citizens of Sikkim. The group is campaigning against the construction of a 30 MW hydel power project in the Yuksam valley, in west …
The Environment Appraisal Commiittee for River Valley and Hydro-electricity Projects under the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF), has recommended that construction work on 10 dams be immediately stopped for not complying with the specified norms laid down. The 13-member committee chaired by I J Vasoya, chairman of Gujarat …
Although the prime minister's programme to lay the foundation stone at the 710 mw Koel Karo hydel project on March 5 was shelved, the anti-dam lobby demonstrated its muscle by gathering at Torpa village, 95 km from Ranchi. A 20,000-strong crowd -- mainly tribals -- prevented the Bihar chief minister, …
• Over 60 per cent of the catchment area of the Arun river falls in Tibet; little is known about the hydrological behaviour of the river in this part. • inadequate study of the discharge pattern of the Arun river. critics say that the data collected does not go back …
"India would need power by the time Arun III dam stal1$; producing electricity," said Nepal's Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikary in response to a question by Down To Earth during his visit to New Delhi in April. Although the viability of the World Bank-sponsored project hinges on India's purchase of …
LOCATION On the Arun river in Sankhuwasabha district,about 200 km east of Kathmandu TOTAL POTENTIAL OF THE ARUN BASIN 1,045 mw PRE-FEASIBlLITY STUDY March 1985 FEASIBILITY STUDY June 1987 DETAILED ENGINEERING STUDY December 1992 TARGET COMMISSIONING DATE April 1, 2001 TOTAL POWER GENERATION 201 mw (Phase I), 201 mw (Phase …
