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 …
AFTER a four-year absence from Ogoniland and some soul-searching, Anglo-Shell, the multinational oil corporation, which had always denied responsibility for environmental pollution in Ogoniland and elsewhere in the Niger Delta, has shelved its earlier stance, accepting "to clean up all oil spills" in its areas of operation. In a bid …
around 5,000 members of the U'Wa tribe have threatened to commit suicide if an oil company from the us does not abandon its plans to drill for oil on their ancestral land. The tribe has already lost legal claim to the 162,000 hectares drilling site, which is located just outside …
Officials of Royal Dutch Shell, the international oi1company, had to yet again face the wrath of angry natives of Niger delta. 'This time, the protesters were not Ogonis but members of the Ijaw community who stormed six Shell facilities taking 127 Shell staff hostage. The protest soon spread eastward through …
For decades, Venezuela has been a country rich in oil resources - the nation's principal treasure trough. And this major industry has always been overshadowing the country's petrochemical industry. So far, short of capital and know-how, the industry had been limited to the domestic market, while vast quantities of associated …
This southeast Asian country is planning to move towards diversification of power sources. Indonesia plans to build the nation's first nuclear power plant in Java, the most heavily populated part of the country. This is notwithstanding the fact that three citizens' group in Jakarta had held a joint meeting last …
In a recent move, the 59-year-old state-owned oil industry has been privatised with international companies given the responsibility to develop and manage the country's oil reserves. The deal, which was worth us $835 million to the Bolivian government, provides the international partners a 50 per cent stake in ypfb , …
It seems to be Nigeria all over again in the state ofTabasco near Mexico City. Protestors have blockaded dozens of oil wells belonging to the state-owned oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos - Pemex for short - accusing it of environmental damage and corruption. "In, our region, there is misery all around …
Venezuela has finally opened the doors of its oil fields to foreigners. For the first time since the nationalisation of its petroleum industry in 1976, the country has taken a decision to invite foreign equity investment in oil exploration and production. A joint session of the Venezuelan Congress has approved …
It is a victory of sorts for activists in the oil-ricb Ogoni region of southeast Nigeria who have been fighting a long-sustained battle against oil giant Shell Petroleum. They claim that Shell has ruined the environment by peppering the land with wells and smoky refineries. Their leader and the founder …
International oil companies are overjoyed with the Zedillo regime in Mexico, which recently decided to open transport, distribution and storAge of natural gas to the private sector. The oil giants are convinced that the move will speed up development plans. They believe that many gasfired power stations were inexcusably delayed …
A SHOW of muscle by the us oil industry has sent the country's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the powerful agricultural lobby into a tailspin. In late April, a federal appeals court threw out an EPA rule requiring oil refineries to include maize-based ethanol in the new cleaner-burning fuel. The …
THE conflict between the US oil industry, which manufactures methanol, and the ethanol producers lobby, has acquired the overtones of a guerrilla war. Charges are flying thick and fast. A recent advertisement in the Washington Post proclaimed: "One ounce of methanol will make you permanently blind." Using ethanol -- an …
FOR the past 10 years, over 12,000 inhabitants of Meethapur village on Delhi's Badarpur border have been racked with cough and breathing problems that often degenerate into asthma and tuberculosis. The Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre (BHMRC) -- which caters to Meethapur in the absence of closer medicare centres …
INDIA'S interest in petroleum has grown rapidly. Understandably so, because the investments made are large and the returns fair, and could be even more attractive if we priced it properly. But, despite the growing interest in the mechanics of petroleum, it is virtually impossible to find a book that is …
US ENVIRONMENTAL regulation to check industrial pollution and technological advances are causing a shift from petrochemicals to eco-friendly compounds, called biochemicals, which are obtained from plant matter such as wood and cellulose. Manufacturers can now separate different components of plant matter as easily as those of crude oil and convert …
Tighter environmental laws could cost the European oil refineries upto $ 80 billion by the end of the decade, said delegates at a recent petroleum and gas conference. This could mean higher prices for consumers and bankruptcies among refineries. Klaus Kohlhase of British Petroleum (BP) and chairman of Concawe, the …
THE MYANMAR military junta's plans to use income from oil and gas concessions to buy weapons to keep its brutal dictatorship going have run into a snag, as many of the disenchanted international oil companies have decided to pull out. After three years in fruitless exploratory drilling, most of the …
A Nigerian judicial commission of inquiry has uncovered a gruesome incident in which the police massacred 80 unarmed villagers demonstrating for compensation in lieu of their land taken over by Shell International. The Guardian alleges that not only did Nigerian authorities cover up the killings, they also suppressed the commission …
This volume collates 29 papers on environmental management, air, water and wastewater management, ecology and environmental pollution control and noise. The book reflects the extent of information starvation in India: most of the papers are quite dated. Some are so basic they would find a place in undergraduate tutorial notes. …
