Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
Participants from five Commonwealth countries met in Nairobi recently to undergo training in environmental impact assessment in project planning and management. Kenya showed them a model of development sans pollution: a hi-tech geothermal power plant, the first of its kind in Africa, lies 120 km from Nairobi near Lake Naivasha, …
GEOTHERMAL power is fast emerging as a significant source for electricity in several island nations, mainly in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific regions (The Royal Geographical Society Magazine, Vol 68, No 3). For instance, Indonesia is setting up 2 geothermal power plants each of 55 mw capacity on the …
In India, the Union ministry of non-conventional energy sources is pursuing various R&D; projects to harness the geothermal energy available. About 340 hot springs have been identified in the country, with temperatures varying from 60oC to 130oC. A 5kw experimental power plant is being operated at Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh. …
