Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of President Municipal Committee Thathri VS Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir dated 03/12/2024. Joint committee report dated November 25, 2024 has been filed through the Central Pollution Control Board. Project proponents stated that they want to file an objection to …
Air Quality Impact Assessment studies of Singoli Bhatwari Hydroelectric Power Plant are reported. The plant site is connected to the dam site via a road. Computations of four pollutants namely Carbon Monoxide, Sulphur Dioxide, Oxides of Nitrogen and Suspended Particulate Matter have been made at various sites around the plant …
For 15 days in January, hundreds of men, women and children marched across river valleys of India's Uttarakhand state to raise awareness about government plans to build dams. The government intends to build 220 large, medium and small dams in the upper reaches of the Ganges River basin.
Water wars in the arid western US are nothing new, but the rules of engagement have changed. The Klamath River basin on the California-Oregon border has seen the stage for a decades-long epic battle between farmers, fisherman, government agencies, utilities and tribes with treaty rights to dwindling salmon populations. More …
South Asia being an energy-deficit region, there is a strong case for developing regional cooperation in this sector. This may take different forms. India has surplus petroleum refining capacity while other countries in the region are importers of petroleum products. The real benefits will accrue from cooperation in power generation.
prime minister Manmohan Singh recently laid the foundation stone for a controversial hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh. But the project has still not got clearance from the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests. The move has surprised many as the stone-laying ceremony of the Rs 16,000 crore project
Keen to become a global player in the hydel sector the Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) is hopeful of securing the Arun-III project in Nepal. The public sector undertaking has emerged as the the frontrunner for the 402-MW project after the first-ranked GMR Energy Ltd was assigned the Upper Karnali …
Energy security has to go hand in hand with economic development and environmental protection. India has to customize its own energy portfolio, consistent with its endowment of energy resources, and employing technologies which are economically viable, socially equitable, ecologically sustainable and have minimal carbon emissions.
If Bhutan were to generate 6,000 MW by 2020 it would require adding, every year, a Chukha project to generate 346 MW of power, for the next 12 years, according to the draft 10th Plan document. The projections, the draft document states, are realistically based and anchored by the Indo-Bhutan …
A group of Nepali power developers have decided to proceed with the development of 100 MW-strong Kaligandaki gorge hydropower project to help resolve the crisis of load shedding in the country. Hydro Solutions, a company of the Nepali promoters, has said that it aims to complete the construction of the …
The 60 MW Kurichhu hydropower station in Gyalpoizhing, Mongar, has shut down for eight days starting February 11, to allow Bhutan Power Corporation Limited (BPCL) to do maintenance work on substations and transmission lines in the eastern region. This means eight eastern and central dzongkhags, including Sarpang and Zhemgang, will …
Responding to the cancellation notice served by the new BJP government, the Brakel Corporation, a Dutch company, has finally deposited the upfront premium of Rs 173 crore for the two mega hydroelectric projects it had secured in global bidding. The state government had allotted seven projects by inviting global tenders …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minster Prem Kumar Dhumal on Sunday said that the hill State was targeting a generation of 12,000 MW of hydro electric power in the next five years. While laying the foundation stone for a 2.5 MW private hydro electric project in Kullu, he said all environmental safeguards …
The submergence study of the proposed Kanhar Jalayasa Pariyojna by Jharkhand Space Applications Center (JSAC) is basically a technology demonstration project to assess the area of submergence at different level of proposed impoundment. The reservoir is proposed on the river Kanhar which borders both Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh state near Garhwa …
Hydropower projects leads to the transformation of ecosystems by the creation of reservoirs and/or through important modifications to flow regimes. The nature and magnitude of impacts is highly site specific, vary significantly from one project to another and vary according to the biotopes in which projects are situated.
Mozambique formally took over the Cahora Bassa dam from its former ruler, Portugal, on November 27. Mozambique had to pay Portugal us $700 million for control of the dam, which is the second largest hydroelectric project in Africa. The dam supplies power not only to Mozambique but exports power to …
