Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The Bangladesh government along with the United Nations Environment Programme (unep) has decided to conduct a fresh survey to determine the extent of damage caused by the devastating accident at the Magurchhara gas well in 1997. uncoal, the us company which took over Occidental's operation in Bangladesh, has agreed to …
What are the anthropogenic factors leading to the increase of dioxin in the environment? The biggest source of dioxin is the pulp and paper and petrochemical industries, and incinerators. The pulp and paper industry uses bleaching agents like chlorine which are major contributors of dioxin. Are the incidences of abnormalities …
work on a new oil terminal on the Black Sea coast has led to renewed concerns over environmental safety in one of Russia's most beautiful regions. At a ceremony at Yuzhnaya Ozereika, near Russia's main Black Sea oil port, Novorossiisk, Russian and Kazakh government officials and shareholders in the Caspian …
The state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan said it would gradually phase out its premium gasoline and replace it with 98-octane unleaded gasoline in 2000 to help reduce pollution. All production and selling of the leaded premium gasoline would be stopped beginning 2000, a spokesperson for the state oil corporation …
on april 15, 1999, natives of Alaska delivered a message directly to oil giant bp Amoco's annual general meeting ( agm), telling shareholders what the management had refused to acknowledge until now: the company's drive for new oil worldwide threatens their culture and livelihood. Three Alaskan natives travelled thousands of …
China is fighting a "life and death" battle against rising floodwaters which have posed a serious threat to the country's oil hub at Daqing. The Yangtze river is flowing above the danger mark. Government officials said they would blast the dyke to save cities downstream. More than 300,000 people have …
THE us Navy, oil industry and telecommunication giants are trying hard to take the Law of the Sea Treaty out of the 'deep freeze' as the nation is still to ratify it. The deadline for ratifying the treaty, an international agreement on regulating commerce, navigation and exploration on and beneath …
wastes generated by petroleum and related industries cause of some of the biggest headaches that plague environmentalists today. Apart from their massive emission levels, numerous industrial mishaps such as oil spills and accidental leakage have, over the years, been successful in projecting petroleum companies as big, careless monsters bent on …
the oil industry should switch investment from new oil exploration to renewable energy to avoid dangerous climate change, said the Greenpeace spokesperson Kalle Hesstvedt. A technical analysis conducted by the organisation has shown that only a quarter of global economic reserves of fossil fuels
drug deal: The pharmaceutical major, Ranbaxy has planned to launch 25 brands worldwide in coming seven years. The company is also targeting drugs that would come off patents during this period. These drugs have a market value of US $40 million, say the company officials. Recently, Ranbaxy failed to have …
india could soon produce bio-degradable plastic for mass consumption. Following a two-year research, scientists from various government institutes have been able to develop the plastic. This plastic can be converted into non-polluting substance within 90 days. The National Research Development Corporation (nrdc), New Delhi, has planned to manufacture the product. …
Luis Giusti, president of Petroleos de Venezuela (pdvsa), the state oil company, announ-ced that the company will produce an average of 3.6 million (m) barrels per day (b/d) - 42 per cent above its Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (opec) quota of 2.538m b/d. pdvsa expects to export an average …
villagers in Thailand have threatened to seal the forests in Kanchanaburi if the government did not stop work on the Thai-Burmese gas pipeline. They had earlier submitted a letter to Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai demanding that the pipeline be rerouted. At a protest rally on December 8, the villagers demanded …
protests and demonstrations were held across the world in support of the struggle for the rights of Ogoni tribals, whose land has been exploited by oil and natural gas transnational Shell in Nigeria. Human rights activists and environmentalists picketed petrol stations selling Shell products on November 10 in New Delhi, …
THE COMPLETE PICTURE: Televisions all over the world display only 88 per cent of the image broadcast by TV stations. Now, Korean-based electronics company, Samsung is developing televisions that will display the missing 12 per cent. Called HiTron TV sets, these televisions are 2.5 centimetres wider than usual. Conventional TV …
At a time when Chinese authorities are enforcing strict measures to control motor pollution, domestic refineries have started producing unleaded gasoline. Government authorities say that the shift in the production to unleaded petrol will not require extra imports, as several refineries in China have been gearing up to produce unleaded …
BLASTS followed by fire in four gas storage tanks of the public sector Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited ( hpcl ) Refineries at Visakhapatanam charred to death at least 25 people on the spot, injuring another 50, most of them Central Industrial Security Force ( cisf ) personnel on September 14. …
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of six polluting industries in Kattedan Industrial area. The industries are Vijayanand Textiles, Ramachandra Refinery, Anil Refinery, Bhavani Industries, Supreme Pigments and Jayadurga textiles. The closure was ordered on the basis of a report submitted by the …
IN THE wake of the devastating energy crisis, energy- related issues were catapul- ted onto the geopolitical agenda as one of the main issues affecting the global economy. But as the spot price of oil stabilised in the volatile Rotterdam market, energy policy was again rele- gated to the background, …
BREEZING IN: Ahmednagar Forgings Ltd (AFL), a Pune-based company, has set its sights on wind power generation and infrastructure development. "The diversification into generation of power by windmills and other renewable or non- conventional resources is being seriously considered in view of the incentives being offered by income tax and …
