Improving the processing and trade of African wood and wood products (WWPs) has long been a focus for African policymakers because it stimulates multiple benefits for the African continent, including the creation of jobs, investment, and revenues. Further processing of WWPs in Africa will contribute to the continent’s industrialization and …
Nagpur: Taking serious note of high pollution levels from the Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS), the Union environment ministry has refused to initiate the process for granting environmental clearance to the proposed two new units of the plant. As per ministry’s report, the sulphur dioxide emissions from the plant are …
Nagpur: During the last general elections, the city’s air was much cleaner. Environmental apathy was neither a major concern, nor an influencing factor in the election discourse. The local political ‘atmosphere’ might have not changed much but the ambient air has got murkier in the last five years. With a …
Nagpur: Months have passed but it is not clear what concrete action has been taken by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) against Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS). A recent reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query states that "directions were issued" by the board, but fails to reveal what …
Some government officers are so callous towards their duties that they do not realize that it is harming them as well as their families. I realized this fact while doing a story on air pollution caused by Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS) of Mahagenco. KTPS has caused air pollution in …
Nagpur: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has corroborated the TOI expose' on Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS) air pollution questioning the emission figures and Mahagenco's system of measuring them. It has strongly recommended that KTPS should take air pollution control measures for the safety of citizens. A CPCB team from …
NAGPUR: Despite the alarming pollution around Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS), the state government is looking at ways to circumvent a critical environmental rule that makes it mandatory to install a pollution control unit called the flue gas desulphuriser (FGD). This unit controls emissions of sulphur dioxide, which is the …
NAGPUR: The Prime Minister's Office has sought action on the various irregularities at the Koradi Thermal Power Plant. It has also asked for an action taken report in 15 days. The PMO was acting on a complaint filed by activist Ankita Shah whose grievance was based on TOI's report on …
Nagpur: Nagpurians can expect some relief from pollution as, after months of dilly-dallying, Mahagenco has finally agreed to install pollution control equipment for new Koradi units. The company was forced to take the decision because of new norms of Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC). The flue …
Nagpur: Residents of Koradi and its nearby areas, including north Nagpur will have to suffer ill effects of pollution for some more months as Mahagenco has sought time for installing pollution control equipment at Koradi power plant. An appeal in this regard has been filed with union ministry of environment, …
Nagpur: Clear evidence has emerged that Mahagenco and WCL are taking toll on the residents of Khaparkheda, Koradi and nearby areas. In 2015, the number of people who contracted skin and respiratory ailments in Katol area was less than a fourth of that in Khaparkheda. While Khaparkheda is surrounded by …
Nagpur: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis seems to have gone on an overdrive to keep power rates down in the state. He is ignoring the health hazard created by thermal power plants in his own hometown in the process. However, union environment minister Prakash Javadekar has so far not supported his …
Nagpur: The Vadodara zonal office of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) seems to have provided half-baked information to the parliamentary standing committee on environment and forests regarding Nagpur's pollution. This becomes evident in the background note for Nagpur distributed to the media during the committee's press conference on Sunday. The …
Nagpur: There seems to be no sign of relief from air pollution for residents of north Nagpur and the adjoining rural areas as Mahagenco is yet to act on the directive issued by energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule. Taking cognisance of two reports published in TOI, Bawankule, on January 2, had …
Nagpur: Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS) has started to generate power at its new unit without air and water pollution control systems in place. The unit is said to be operated on trial basis but technically producing power as like any other unit in operation. Activists and residents are complaining …
NAGPUR: The first under construction unit of Koradi thermal power station (KTPS) expansion project achieved a milestone on Thursday when the boiler of 660 MW Unit 8 was lit up in the morning. This is the first supercritical unit of Mahagenco to achieve this milestone. According to Mahagenco managing director …
These utilities account for 51% of India's coal-based power capacity More than half the country’s coal-based power-generation capacity has been running on less than seven days’ fuel supply, power ministry data reveal. The latest numbers showed 34 of India’s 90 power stations were running on critical coal stocks — sufficient …
The Maharashtra government today admitted that it had to shut down eight small-scale power generation plants due to the pollution they were causing. The aggregate power generation capacity of these units was nearly 800 MW. Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who holds the energy portfolio, told the legislative assembly in …
Nagpur: The power generation of Maharashtra State Electricity Generation Company (Mahagenco) is likely to suffer this week as coal supply to its Koradi and Khaperkheda plants would be interrupted due to the mega rail block between Bhilai and Bilaspur, official sources said. The South East Central Railway has decided to …
