Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
As militants disrupt power supply to nearly seventy per cent population of the provincial capital, power authorities remain clueless about how to ensure an alternative power supply system to the metropolitan. Mighty towers on Sheikh Mohammadi transmission line, which bring electricity from Tarbela Power House to the 2.3 million consumers …
Over 2.30 lakh rural households were brought under the solar power system in last five years by Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL) as alternative source of energy. Executive Director of IDCOL, a company under the Ministry of Finance, M Ehsanul Haque yesterday said they have set a target to install …
President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Saturday proposed four measures to address the energy crisis facing countries of the eight-member regional body, whose leaders focused their inaugural speeches, at the 15th summit meeting, on a wide range of topics from terrorism and climate change to rising food prices. Noting that high …
A total of 30,000 biogas plants have so far been installed in rural areas in the country as an alternative source of energy to reduce the use of firewood. People are using biogas for cooking, lighting and generation of electricity while residues from the plants utilised as organic fertiliser for …
Speakers and experts at a workshop on "Ways and Means to Overcome Energy Crisis in Pakistan' have urged the government to find other means to explore, exploit and conserve energy resources, if the country is to overcome the ongoing power crisis. The workshop, held at the Abdul Qadeer Khan auditorium …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi July 30, 2008, 0:03 IST The introduction of 10 per cent mandatory blending of ethanol with petrol is unlikely to happen from this October, as decided by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) in October 2007. The government has not notified the decision and …
Pakistan government has set an ambitious tagret of around $20 billion as foreign investment in the energy sector, for which it is actively interacting with top companies in the USA. Highlighting the salient features of the upcoming energy conference. The Minister of Information, Sherry Rehman, told Business Recorder that the …
Makarand Gadgil / Mumbai July 22, 2008, 3:32 IST There is a big buzz around ethanol blending with petrol as it is seen as providing relief for the consumers of this scarce commodity when international prices have seen unprecedented spike in the last few months. But ethanol manufacturers are an …
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: A bio-diesel plant, with a capacity to produce 1,000 litres a day, has been sanctioned for the State by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. Southern Railway is likely to buy the product from the plant. The Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and …
There is an urgent need for tapping the potential of alternative energy in Pakistan particularly and South Asia region in general because of acute shortage of energy crisis. This was sated by Tariq Saeed, President Saarc Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Saarc CCI) in his meeting with Arif Alauddin, the …
Sujay Mehdudia Owing to political instability at the Centre NEW DELHI: With international crude oil prices touching a whopping $147 a barrel, the search for alternative sources has intensified. However, the political uncertainty over the India-U.S. nuclear deal has delayed the announcement of a bio-fuel policy, outlining incentives for those …
Maulik Pathak / Ahmedabad July 10, 2008, 0:20 IST With oil flowing past $145 a barrel, leading companies in the country have lined up plans to explore opportunities in jatropha cultivation and prospects of biofuel. The companies are flocking to Gujarat, which has earmarked 1,900,000 acres in the Narmada region …
Sudha Mahalingam With global carbon galloping, you can neither negotiate nor argue with Gaia. Not when she is on her sick bed. We need a paradigm shift in the way we perceive development. The just released Prime Minister's National Action Plan on Climate Change acknowledges the potentially adverse impact of …
Advocating the removal of subsidies on non-renewable fuels like kerosene, chairman of the Nobel-prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change R K Pachauri on Tuesday urged the Government to invest this money in promoting clean and alternative sources of energy. Citing the example of kerosene, Pachauri said the huge subsidy …
UT Administrator Gen eral (Retd) S F Rodrigues has asked officials in the Administration to look at alternative sources of energy for the city. Speaking at a public hearing session on Monday, he suggested that the alternative sources of energy could provide a long-term solution to the energy crisis. A …
Criticism of biofuel erupted when in certain countries in the western hemisphere a staple food crop like maze-and also soybean, sugarcane and various oilseed crops--began to be used for extensive ethanol production- Atul Cowshish Not very long away biofuel was hailed as the best and the cheapest alternative to fossil …
Recently, biodiesel has been receiving increasing attention due to its less polluting nature and also because it is a renewable energy resource. Mostly, biodiesel is prepared from edible oils like soybean, rapeseed and sunflower through out the world. Attempts have been made for producing biodiesel with non edible oils like …
Groups of women in Zambia started providing energy services like battery charging, irrigation, milling and welding, to the community by using a replacing diesel with jatropha oil that they produce themselves.
As global prices escalate, Argentina plans to quintuple production of soyabean diesel by 2010. It will dramatically change agriculture and the environment.
