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 …
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)'s Rochem Green plant to generate energy from waste will soon start generating 10 mega watt electricity. "The plant currently uses 300 metric tonne waste to generate 3 mega watt electricity. It will soon upgraded to take 700 metric tonne waste to generate 10 mega …
Expert Committee Never Suggested Gasification Plant For Municipal Waste Treatment Thiruvananthapuram: The government awarded the contract to set up modular wastetreatment plant at Chalai at a cost of Rs 60 crores to Loro Enviropower by overruling the recommendations of the expert committee headed by RVG Menon Two weeks after TOI …
Biogas plants that generate gas by rotting animal wastes now have become popular among households in some rural areas as they can save biomass fuel, time and maintain carbon-free environment. Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research was helping households in nine districts to install biogas plants by providing logistic …
Recycled fuels have been receiving great attention in order to supply energy recovery especially from waste products. An experimental study was conducted to evaluate the use of fuels produced from waste polyethylene (WPE) as an internal combustion engine fuel. Waste Polyethylene (WPE) was degraded thermally for conversion. The fuel collected …
Environment has been given short shrift in the budget with finance minister P. Chidambaram concerning himself only with the thousands of tons of garbage being generated in our cities everyday. The budget focuses on the need to set up waste-to-energy projects in PPP mode. Unfortunately most of these plants have …
The FM wants credit for acting on environment, but does the wrong things The "mool mantra" of Budget 2013 is inclusive and sustainable development, says Finance Minister P Chidambaram. But, as far as the environment is concerned, there is no substance in the Budget that tells us how the direction …
Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Limited has begun preliminary works for plant Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s proposal to encourage municipalities to go in for waste-to-energy projects has come as a shot in the arm for the Coimbatore Corporation. In his Budget speech on Thursday, the Minister said: “India tosses out …
The budget proposal to aid local bodies in taking up waste-to-energy projects in public-private partnership mode is expected to improve urban waste management in Kochi and other cities. Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had proposed “to support municipalities implementing waste-to-energy projects by offering viability gap funding, repayable grant and low-cost …
New Delhi: With the government throwing its weight behind waste-to-energy (WTE) plants in this year’s Budget, a debate has started on the need for, and suitability of, such projects. Waste management across most parts of the country is in a mess and in cities like Delhi, where a WTE plant …
Finance minister P Chidambaram batted for sustainable development repeatedly in his speech, marking the arrival of the phrase in mainstream political and economic lexicon. But he backed it up with only loose change for environment and green technologies sector, though he offered some new provisions for urban environment and new …
MRV – Measurement/Monitoring, Reporting and Verification - is commonly understood as a series of processes to quantify GHG emission and their change over time. It is a key instrument to understand the level of emissions and the impact of actions aimed at changing emission levels. For this reason, MRV became …
BHOPAL: A unique technique to extract oil from plastic waste promises to revolutionize the marketplace, according to Indore-based entrepreneur Manoj Sharma. The extracted oil can be used to power various industrial generators. "First industrial setup employing the technique would begin in Godhra (Gujarat) on March 15," said Sharma. He has …
Budget 2013-2014: speech of P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance. Read Finance Minister P Chidambaram's budget speech February 28, 2013 Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2013-14. 2. I recall my last tenure as Finance Minister and acknowledge with gratitude the splendid support that I received …
LONDON: In a first-of-its kind attempt, an Australian pilot plans a 16,898 kilometre historic trip from Sydney to London using fuel produced entirely from plastic waste. Forty one-year-old Jeremy Rowsell's flight will be powered by five tonnes of discarded packaging, waste collected from rubbish dumps and — using a pioneering …
After failing to effectively implement garbage treatment facilities at its dumping grounds, the civic administration is looking to foreign companies to set up waste-to-energy plants in the city. The BMC will invite proposals from companies across the world to set up plants in order to treat the 6,500 metric tonnes …
Make use of 150 to 200 tonnes of waste generated in Madurai There is a huge potential for converting waste into biogas, according to S.P. Kale, Head, Technology Transfer and Collaboration Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He had interaction with the district administration officials at the Collectorate here on …
The government on Monday signed an agreement with an Italian company to purchase 100 megawatts (MW) power based on solid waste for the national grid, reports BSS. Management Environment Finance SRL Ltd, an Italian company will set up two separate power plants for generating 100MW electricity based on Solid Waste …
The government on Monday signed a 20-year deal with Environment Finance SRL-Italy for a project to produce diesel, fertiliser and 300mw of electricity from waste in Dhaka city. Under the project, two power plants will be set up – one at Matuail sanitary landfill under Dhaka South City Corporation and …
It uses coconut shells, husk, fibres, castor stalks and plant waste With power crisis crippling the State, educational institutions are looking at an alternative mode of sourcing electricity, so that the studies of the students are not affected during night hours. Recently, a biomass gasifier was installed at Golden Gates …
ISLAMABAD: Around 3,000 megawatts (MW) cheaper electricity would be generated through sugarcane bagasse on fast track basis and investors would be facilitated and encouraged. Minister for Water and Power Ahmed Mukhtar said necessary amendments would also be made in the existing co-generation and Renewable Energy policies to make it simplified …
