Order of the High Court of Rajasthan in the matter of Deepak Acharya Vs Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited dated 05/03/2025. The Rajasthan High Court has admitted a petition challenging installation of a Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) petrol pump near a crematorium and high-tension line. The NOCs to establish the …
The post-war boom had brought gas-guzzling vehicles, expanding highways and mushrooming suburbs in the industrialised countries, especially the US. This boom was fuelled by oil - the industrialised economies depended almost entirely on intensive use of fossil fuels. The world learned about its dependence on oil in 1973. The Yom …
The Caspian region has possibly the third largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world (after the Persian Gulf and western Siberia), estimated to be up to 15 per cent of the total reserves of the world. Hardly any of this potential has been tapped as yet, and it …
India's prominence in the energy market is that it is the world's sixth largest energy consumer - and yet woefully short of energy sources. It has large coal reserves but the worrisome part is petroleum, which accounts for about 30 per cent of the total energy. India produces only 30 …
"One of the ironies at the turn of the century is that, in an age when the pace of technological change is almost overwhelming, the world will remain dependent, out to the year 2020 at least, essentially on the same sources of energy - oil, natural gas, coal - that …
The US President George W Bush is raring to launch an attack on Iraq. Whether it has weapons of mass destruction or not, Iraq certainly has the world's second largest reserves of petroleum after Saudi Arabia. Thanks to UN sanctions, it produces a mere fraction of its potential. The US, …
"Not since the rise of the railroads more than a century ago has a single industry [energy] placed so many foot soldiers at the top of a new administration." - Newsweek, May 14, 2001 George W Bush took over as president of the US on January 20, 2001. Within two …
Picturesque Santa Monica, located in California and known for its palm tree-lined boulevards, has of late been dug up by ungainly drilling rigs. At one level, the intensive boring operations are seeking to trace potential carcinogen methyl tertiary butyl ether (mtbe) that has seeped from underground petrol storage tanks into …
I set off towards Meerut on the trail of a transporter's crew suspectedly involved in fuel adulteration. Officials nearly stumped my investigations. Thankfully, Bhure Lal, chairperson of the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority intervened. The district magitrate, then, called an urgent meeting of officials and insisted that the seals …
basics of free market mantra confound our fuel managers. While letting the fuel market go free they fail to balance environment and public health objectives with market forces. Worse, they are not even thinking about it. Delhi is probably the only city in the world today where a clean fuel …
At last, after years of resistance, the Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas has relented. On March 20 this year, Union minister Ram Naik announced in Parliament that toxic oxygenates
despite stiff opposition from the greens, the parliament of Norway cleared the nation's first petroleum development project in the Arctic Barents Sea. It was passed by a 75-25 vote recently. The natural gas project
A mobile court fined nine filling stations of Tangail and Kalihati in Bangladesh for selling adulterated petrol, diesel, octane and mobil oil to transport owners and giving them less quantity of fuel. The court, after checking 17 stations, sent samples of the adulterated fuels to Dhaka for chemical testing.
A SMOG emergency caused by two months without rain could prove a blessing in disguise for Italy's Lombardy region. Hope has sprung from the haze with plans afoot to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel-powered cars in the area. The measure is a part of a roadmap outlined …
What do you say when a Cabinet minister - an articulate and vocal one at that - refuses to appear on a television panel to discuss a serious public policy issue with you? Ram Naik, the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and I were invited by a private …
there would be no sulphur in petrol from January 1, 2009, in 15 countries of the European Union (eu) block. This decision was taken by the eu environment ministers recently. The eu intends to reduce harmful pollutants and carbon dioxide from vehicle emissions. The sulphur ban is in consonance with …
auto drivers in Delhi are on a high. They think that the Supreme Court’s ruling of September 17 that gives them the option of using clean petrol is a great reprieve from long queues for compressed natural gas (cng). They are also angry and want to sue the Delhi government …
for the first time in India, a state pollution control board has taken action against a polluter under the Water (Prevention and Control) Act of 1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control) Act of 1981. The precedent has been set by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board ( tnpcb ), …
In a bid to combat air pollution, the Indonesian government has banned the use of leaded petrol in Jakarta and its surrounding areas. "From July 1, 2001, vehicles in Jakarta and surrounding areas will use only unleaded petrol,' said Purnomo Yusgiantoro, the country's mines and energy minister. The government is …
