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 …
Trichy corporation aims to generate both electricity and cooking gas from the garbage generated in the city. The scheme will be implemented in Srirangam constituency represented by chief minister J Jayalalithaa. A bio-digester plant will be built near Amma Unavagam in Srirangam at an outlay of Rs 90 lakh. The …
Minister of Environment and Energy Thorig Ibrahim said that the government would establish a waste management system in 3 areas of Maldives. Minister Thorig made this remark at a function held at Kulunu Vehi yesterday morning to sign an agreement with German company Michaelis GmbH & Co. KG to establish …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association & Ors. Vs. State of NCT of Delhi & Ors. dated 19/02/2014 regarding the public interest petition filed by Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association in the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi …
Only 13 Out Of 27 Units Operational: PMC Pune: Only 50% of the biogas plants set up in the city with an aim to decentralize garbage processing system are functioning. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has 27 biogas plants with a joint capacity to process about 133 tonne garbage.At present,only …
A group of Paris restaurants is turning food scraps into biogas and compost ahead of a new law that will force thousands of French food outlets to recycle their organic waste. Some 80 restaurants, caterers and hotels, including gourmet food company Fauchon and Michelin-starred Taillevent, signed up for a pilot …
The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has pledged Dh22million (US$6 million) in concessionary loans for clean energy projects in the Maldives, Abu Dhabi media has reported. Read more in this January 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Maldives. ENVIRONMENT Minister of State for Environmental Ministry, …
The septage treatment plant in Ernakulam will be completed in six months and it will be followed by the one in Alappuzha and Palakkad. Modern garbage treatment plants with the latest technology will be set up in Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode, Minister for Urban Affairs Manjalamkuzhi Ali told the Assembly …
New Delhi: Residents of Sukhdev Vihar and other parts of Okhla met the environment minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, requesting him to shut down the controversial Okhla waste to energy plant that has allegedly been emitting high levels of air pollutants. Bhardwaj accepted their memorandum against the plant and promised to assess …
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - Lahore—As rapid progress on the construction of Pakistan’s first ever scientific waste disposal site at Lakhodair is underway, Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) is reviewing various technologies suitable for its Waste to Energy project likely to be adopted in future. In this respect, a five …
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has decided to grant a Dh22 million (MVR92 million) loan to the Maldives to help clean energy projects undertaken by the government. The National, an Abu Dhabi-based English language daily, said the loan would help the Maldives government to build a waste-to-energy plant aimed at …
Residents living near the Jindal Group’s waste incineration power plant in Okhla have welcomed Sunday’s Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) show-cause notice to the company and demanded that it be shut down permanently. The plant is owned by Jindal Urban Infrastructure Ltd. (JUIL), a company of Jindal SAW Group Ltd., …
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has issued a show-cause notice to a waste-to-energy plant owned by the Jindal Group here seeking explanation for the uncontrolled emission in violation of norms in 15 days, failing which the plant will be shut down. The notice dated January 10 was issued to the …
The City Municipal Corporation is all set to generate 4,500 watt of electricity per day from biodegradable municipal solid waste obtained from hotels and markets in the city. The five tonnes per day capacity bio methanation cum power generation plant is to be established at Veeranam Compost Yard at a …
Delhi Pollution Control Committee has issued a show cause notice to the Okhla waste-to-energy plant for violating the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act. It has given plant operators 15 days time to revert on why air pollution levels were beyond the standard around the plant. Residents of Sukhdev …
Here’s good news for resident gods of major shrines in the Kathmandu Valley and their devotees. The Solid Waste Management Technical Support Centre plans to manage waste produced from famous temples, which number in dozens, in the valley that is home to 2.6 million people. Tonnes of garbage, including organic …
The District Sanitation Mission has allotted a sum of Rs 1.04 crore for execution of the project on disposal of bio-degradable waste at its source point. The project will be carried out in 45 grama panchayats and will initially be implemented on an experimental basis at two wards in each …
A sustainable, renewable-energy-based economy, where as much as 90 per cent of India’s total primary energy supply is based on renewable sources, could theoretically be achieved, according to a report released by WWF-India and TERI, at WWF-India, New Delhi. The study examines the possibility of a near 100% Renewable Energy …
The Attingal municipality will set up seven high-capacity biogas plants in various public places as part of its efforts to treat biodegradable waste at source. Work had commenced on the plants at the waste treatment yard at Chudukad, public market, Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Government Girls Higher Secondary School, …
Harnessing nuclear energy for constructive purposes is not without risks but the country has the intelligence required to handle the challenges of using it, said Sharad Kale, Head, Technology Transfer, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He was speaking to reporters at a meet titled ‘An awareness programme on nuclear energy …
