Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Bench, Pune) in the matter of Pathan Fuzailkhan Ashif Khan Vs Gujarat Pollution Control Board & Others dated 07/03/2025. The issue raised in the application pertains to Eco Waste Management (EWM) not operating its facility and conducting its operations without waste treatment, which …
This would help GSPC create India's largest city gas distribution company Five months after it acquired 65% stake in Gujarat Gas Company Ltd (GGCL), GSPC or Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation is planning to merge its city gas distribution entity, GSPC Gas Company Ltd with Gujarat Gas Corporation Limited (GGCL). Persons …
State-run Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) announced it has booked 2.25 million tonne per annum (MTPA) natural gas re-gasification capacity offerd by Petronet LNG Ltd (PLL) at its Dahej terminal in Gujarat. GSPC has contracted the capacity on firm and long-term basis for 20 years. “GSPC will now be able …
However, experts from the oil and gas industry feel that the move by company would not bring much relief in the present high price situation City gas distribution major Gujarat Gas Company Ltd (GGCL) has decided to focus on domestic suppliers for procurement of LNG after its supply contract with …
Petronet LNG, at present, has long-term agreements with foreign companies for supply of LNG for the existing Dahej and Kochi LNG terminals. Petronet LNG Limited is looking for a strategic foreign partner for implementing its Rs 4,500-crore Gangavaram LNG project in Andhra Pradesh. “We are looking for more supplies to …
State-run caustic soda major Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL) has joined hands with National Aluminium Company (Nalco) for setting up 200,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) caustic soda project at Dahej in Gujarat. "The feasibility report for the proposed project is currently on and is likely to be completed by …
M.P. government agrees to demands of Omkareshwar Dam oustees Oustees of the Omkareshwar Dam project called off their jal satyagraha on Monday after the Madhya Pradesh government accepted all their demands and constituted a ministerial committee to look into their grievances. On the 17th day of the protest, Chief Minister …
As many as 250 people affected by the Omkareshwar dam project have been standing in waist-deep water since Saturday night, even as the water level continues to rise. The oustees announced their jal satyagraha protest last month at Ghogalgaon village in the East Nimar region against the Madhya Pradesh government’s …
Gandhinagar: In a systematic blow to high accolades Gujarat received from the Centre over the “net increase in the mangrove cover”, reports from Jambusar in Bharuch in south Gujarat suggest that things may now be moving in the opposite direction. The reports point to the coastal areas in Gulf of …
Around 27 villages of Gujarat’s Narmada and Bharuch districts have been put on alert after water from the overflowing Narmada dam resulted in the perennial river breaching the danger mark at Golden Bridge. Although the flow of water from upstream Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra has reduced, the dam is still …
Alstom India Ltd has said that its thermal services business has obtained a contract worth nearly Rs 344.5 crore (€53 million) for the renovation of NTPC’s gas turbines at its 657-MW Jhanor Gandhar Gas Power Station stage-1 project at Bharuch district in Gujarat. The contract has been awarded to Alstom …
The girl child seems to be disappearing from the progressive and urban areas of Gujarat. The urban centres of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Kutch, Rajkot and Jamnagar districts — that account for 70% of the investments that flowed into Gujarat during the past one decade — have emerged as centres of …
A HISTORY OF POLLUTION? Threaten To Leave If Expansion Ban Is Not Revoked Bharuch:Industrialists and officials of the Ankleshwar Industrial Association say the industrial belt is still listed among the critical zones despite the fact that the pollution level here has reduced to a large extent. If the ban on …
Gandhinagar: Closely following the draft Gujarat Water Policy 2011 sent to the chief minister’s office (CMO) for finalization, a fresh high-level document, prepared for the Planning Commission of India, has proposed major water reforms in rural Gujarat. This document proposes introducing availability of water 24x7 through water meters at the …
Gandhinagar: Water woes in the Petroleum Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR), an important industrial hotspot along Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, may come to an end soon. The PCPIR, coming up over 480 sq km in the Dahej-Bharuch region, will get a two-km-long weir off the mouth of Narmada river at …
Gandhinagar: Hope has finally dawned for lifting the ban, imposed by the Government of India, over industrial expansion in Ankleshwar, one of the most industrialized regions of the country. The Gujarat government has asked the Centre to lift the ban on expansion, development and diversification of industries in Ankleshwar and …
Gujarat’s environment and forest department is aiming to bring an additional area of 120 sq km along the state’s coastline under mangrove cover by the end of the financial year 2011-12. “We aim to carry out plantation of mangroves in 120 sq km area by the end of this year. …
GANDHINAGAR: The state's population has reached 6.04 crore in 2011, experiencing an overall decadal growth of 19.17 per cent. Gujarat has also experienced a 35.83 per cent growth in urban population between 2001 and 2011, as compared to rural areas' 9.23 per cent, which could prove to be a major …
GANDHINAGAR: In a remarkable change in industrial investment pattern over the last three decades, the trend in Gujarat has sharply shifted from projects in chemicals and petrochemicals sectors to the non-polluting infrastructure sector. Latest data with the state industries department, meant for official consumption only, has revealed that as on …
Pact will ensure smooth supply of gas to power units in Andhra Pradesh Seeking to end the power woes of Andhra Pradesh and ensuring smooth supply to power plants in the State, GAIL (India) on Thursday entered into a deal with Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) for swapping natural gas with …
GANDHINAGAR: In a major step towards putting the Kalpasar project on fast track, the Gujarat government last week commissioned a bathymetric and geotechnical study of the entire oceanic space in order to ascertain its different layers, including fault-lines. The study, to be completed by January 2012, will closely study tidal …
