Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
M/s Sarda Energy & Minerals Ltd. (SEML) has decided to setup a coal & middling based Thermal Power Plant with a total capacity of 350 (2x135 + 1x30 + 1x50) MW in District Raigarh, Chhattisgarh. SEML has retained Anacon Laboratories Nagpur to undertake on Environmental Impact Assessment study and preparation …
Co can divert only 1/3 of required coal from captive Sasan mine to fuel 4,000mw project in MP Reliance Power, an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) company, may not get its full quota of coal for Chitrangi power project in Madhya Pradesh from its own captive mines attached with Sasan …
The Canadian government plans new regulations that will effectively phase out traditional coal-fired power stations, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said in an interview published on Wednesday. He told the Globe and Mail newspaper that new coal plants would have to include technology to capture greenhouse gas emissions and inject them …
Six in 10 U.S. residents -- more than 186 million people -- live in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution, the American Lung Association reported on Wednesday. The air in many U.S. cities became dirtier last year, the association said in its annual "State of the Air" report. "Despite …
China must swiftly decouple its rapid economic growth from rising carbon dioxide emissions for global greenhouse gas levels to stay manageable, the authors of a new study said, urging sweeping support to help that transition. The study from Britain's Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research by Tao Wang and Jim …
Mumbai: For a state already grappling with severe power shortage, this news is sure to come as a shock. If experts are to be believed, Maharashtra will now have to brace itself for more hours of load-shedding following a major snag at Chandrapur and Khaparkheda thermal power stations. Confirming the …
The highest revenue earning area board of JSEB, Jamshedpur, is set to record a steep fall in its collection this month, courtesy the power crisis. The area board is registering losses to the tune of Rs 50 lakh daily due to the crisis. The monthly revenue collection of JSEB from …
India's 36 per cent thermal power stations are facing acute fuel problem and are operating on coal stocks of less than a week, coinciding with approaching summer. Nearly 28 thermal power stations out of the total 78 have coal stocks of less than seven days, which is deemed critical in …
Britain announced on Thursday plans to force all new coal plants in the country to test a pioneering carbon-cutting technology, as it tries to sharpen efforts to meet steep climate change targets. The move would make Britain the first country to require coal plants to fit carbon capture and storage …
China's forests and other vegetation absorbed around a third of its greenhouse gases in the late 20th century, but the rate may now be falling because of a surge in industrial emissions, scientists said. A study by Peking University said that increased summer rains, efforts to plant forests, an expansion …
April, 22: The increasing summer heat has proved to be too much for thermal power stations in the state. For one, it has affected coal mining, creating fears of fuel shortage. The power stations are also suffering from damage to boiler tubes, supply lines and water tubes because of increasing …
Speakers at a discussion meeting yesterday said that the people were facing severe electricity and gas crisis due to government's lack of commitment. "The Ministry of Energy, Power and Mineral Resources created artificial crisis of electricity to obtain support from people for open pit coal mining here," speakers at a …
Land, livelihood and environment are concerns that will play a role in this coastal region of Maharashtra This beautiful village near the Goa- Maharashtra border has become the flashpoint of a prolonged anti-mining struggle, which locals say will have a major impact on the Lok Sabha election. In the coastal …
The Obama administration opened the way to regulating US greenhouse gas emissions on Friday by declaring climate-warming pollution a danger to human health and welfare, in a sharp policy shift from the Bush administration. Environmental activists and their supporters in Congress were jubilant and industry groups were wary at the …
In an ambitious proposal to counter global warming, an upstart power developer wants to build a coal-fired electric plant on the outskirts of New York City that would capture its emissions of carbon dioxide and pump the pollutant 70 miles offshore. The gas would be injected into sandstone a mile …
Australia's planned emissions trading scheme might not be worth implementing without raising the upper limit of emissions cuts from 15 to 25 percent by 2020, the scheme's architect said on Thursday. The government's top climate adviser, Ross Garnaut, expressed doubts during a parliamentary inquiry into the planned scheme. "If there …
