Any policy on blending ethanol with petrol has to keep in mind the costs involved in ethanol production - excessive use of scarce water to grow sugarcane and the effluents discharged in the process. Rakesh BhartiaRakesh Bhartia CEO, India Glycols Apart from reducing feedstock for the chemicals industry, there are …
Any policy on blending ethanol with petrol has to keep in mind the costs involved in ethanol production - excessive use of scarce water to grow sugarcane and the effluents discharged in the process. Rakesh BhartiaRakesh Bhartia CEO, India Glycols Apart from reducing feedstock for the chemicals industry, there are …
High levels of oil imports and high crude oil and gasoline prices in recent years have led to increased interest in the U.S. fuel supply. Recent congressional interest has focused on alternatives to petroleum, ways to improve the efficiency of the U.S. transportation sector, and ways to improve the stability …
pollution liability: Several oil majors in the US have agreed to pay up US $423 million in what is billed as the largest settlement over drinking-water contamination involving 153 public water utilities in the country. The water utilities from 17 states filed a class-action lawsuit in 2003 complaining that a …
the us house of representatives passed a controversial energy bill on April 21, 2005. The bill gives billions of dollars of subsidy to fossil fuels and permits drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It also provides product liability protection to makers of methyl tertiary butyl ether (mtbe) against lawsuits …
The us government has silently shelved a proposal to ban fuel additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (mtbe) that has been contaminating drinking water in many communities. Critics say the decision is a quid pro quo favouring the chemical industry lobby, which donated over us $1 million to the Republican Party. …
redesigning of underground fuel tanks to stop the leakage of mtbe (methyl tertiary butyl ether) is a better way to avoid groundwater contamination than replacing the carcinogenic additive with alternatives, as per a research. The study shows that mtbe alternatives pose as much of a threat as their predecessor. mtbe …
new Hampshire has become the first state in the us to take on oil giants such as ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco over widespread contamination of its surface water and groundwater due to gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (mtbe). The state has sued 22 corporate entities, including mtbe manufacturers, refiners and …
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 …
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
california is caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, its water association is demanding that the plan to phase out the use of the oxygenate mtbe (methyl tertiary butyl ether) in gasoline be enforced as per the schedule (by the end of 2002). On the …
A judge of a US superior court has ordered five major oil companies to clean up sites in San Francisco that have been contaminated with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). This order was given in response to a lawsuit filed by Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), …
methyl tertiary butyl ether (mtbe) has been found in the Midwest region of the us even though it is not used there, shows a recent research. mtbe, which is a gasoline additive, is said to be carcinogenic and has been known to contaminate groundwater. It was found in 70 per …
the us Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ) has denied California's request to waive the federal requirement for oxygenates in its reformulated gasoline, leaving the state with no choice but to use ethanol as a blending stock for petrol. California's governor Gray Davis recently ordered a 90-day study regarding the …
a us district government has sued Exxon Mobil Corporation, the world's largest oil company, for contaminating Minnesota's Plainview district's water supplies following a spill of methyl tertiary butyl ether ( mtbe) from one of the company's stations. mtbe is a known human carcinogen and its level in the district's groundwater …
Petroleum minister Ram Naik typifies everything that is wrong with our political system today - a system which formulates public policies not because of public good but because of political lobbies. In the last few days, newspapers have carried articles by Ram Naik praising the use of ethanol as a …
the Union government's much-delayed plan to introduce ethanol-blended petrol is finally being implemented. Field trials will soon begin at Miraj in Maharashtra and at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. "The trials will determine whether the five per cent ethanol additive to petrol can be introduced nationwide,' said Union petroleum minister Ram …
the oil industry held its annual jamboree, Petrotech in January 2001, in New Delhi. The conference focussed on the technology used for refining fuel. Little time was spent discussing the role of fuel quality in reducing emissions. Immediately after, a workshop on
The Mexican government is replacing methyl tertiery butyl ether (MTBE), an additive that increases the oxygen content of fuel, with ethanol, which is made from sugarcane. This is because MTBE has been known to contaminate groundwater and has been banned in the US. The government announced this decision after traces …
