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 …
OUTSIDE THE mind space of Delhi’s elite, a war is brewing. It is a battle for livelihood, a fight to find the answer to one question: Who has a right to the city’s garbage? The Delhi government’s push towards corporatisation of door-to-door collection of 8,000 tonnes of solid municipal waste …
The largest waste-to-power plant in China, the Hangu waste-to-power plant, located in the country's northern coastal city of Tianjin, will begin operations before June, according to a spokesman for the Tianjin Electric Power Corporation. Located in the Binhai new district of Tianjin, the plant, spread over an area of 13.2 …
New Delhi: The Sheila Dikshit government will have none of the protests and Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh's green concerns and stands firm on commissioning the waste-to-energy projects in Timarpur-Okhla and Ghazipur. The residents and ragpickers were up in arms against the projects, while the Union minister had requested the …
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today assured the resident welfare associations of Okhla that there would be no health hazard due to the waste-to-energy plant being built in the area because only domestic waste would be used to generate power. The CM gave the assurance to the RWAs at a …
Though residents of Okhla have been protesting the construction of a waste-to-energy plant in their locality for months, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit confirmed on Wednesday that the project will be completed soon. Dikshit gave her assurance that the plant was being built after procuring all the required environmental clearances, and …
Ever heard of bottled cooking gas, green diesel or bio-CNG? And that too produced from waste generated in the city? It might sound shocking, but the next generation of clean fuel technologies can potentially lead to zero-waste clean habitats by converting waste into fuel. Growdiesel, in collaboration with the Maharashtra …
New Delhi:A day after he inspected the Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy plant, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit alleging he had found serious anomalies in the project. Referring to the anomalies, Ramesh has said,
Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has instructed senior environment officials to meet the residents protesting against the upcoming Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy plant and look into their reservations about the plant.
Minister of environment Jairam Ramesh met a group of protesters living in colonies located around the controversial Timarpur-Okhla waste to energy project, owned by Jindal Ecopolis, at Paryavaran Bhawan on Friday. They demanded that the minister take immediate steps to stop these waste to energy projects coming up in Okhla, …
Waste pickers along with environmentalists and civil society groups staged a march from Kudeshiya Park to the Lieutenant-Governor's office here protesting against the setting up of three waste-to-energy plants in the city. The protesters said the three incinerator plants at Okhla, Timarpur and Gazipur were being built with complete disregard …
Petition terming proximity to colony as eco-hazard submitted to Ramesh Residents of Sukhdev Vihar in South Delhi are up in arms against a waste-to-energy plant coming up 150 metres away from the colony
A British town council has got bad press after it approved plans to use the heat from a crematorium to warm up the swimming pool next door. The local authority in Redditch, a town outside Birmingham in central England, says the move will cut energy waste. Work will now begin …
Five-feet long, two-feet wide and about three feet in height, the biogas machine designed and developed by the Bangalore-based Scalene Cybernetics Limited looks a trifle unwieldy for the kitchen in an average flat. The machine, though, has the potential of revolutionising the fuel use in urban households by ridding them …
Biotech, a Thiruvananthapuram-based institution, which is engaged in bio-waste management and non-conventional energy generation programmes, has acquired an innovative technology for generating diesel from plastic waste. The technology developed in Austria is being promoted in India by the TVS Group. Biotech recently signed an agreement to associate with Haritha NTI …
Sri Lanka Minister of Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka says that the rates the Sri Lanka Electricity Board purchases electricity generated from solid waste has been increased. The Minister said the measure was taken to encourage investors in generating electricity through solid waste. Accordingly, the purchasing price for a unit …
NEW DELHI: To address the issue of solid waste disposal in the least polluting fashion, the Delhi Cabinet has approved setting up of bio-gas production facilities that would use bio-degradable waste through the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre-developed Nisargruna technology. To facilitate management of municipal solid waste fiscal incentives would also …
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has withdrawn from the Rs 200-crore wasteto- energy project at Okhla in south Delhi. The bank had promised about Rs 10 crore to the plant under the Asia Pacific Carbon Fund. ADB has not specified any reason for withdrawing from the project. Residents of Sukhdev …
KOCHI: As the waste menace is continuing to be a major headache for residents and authorities, the newly formed Thrikkakara Municipality is planning to initiate steps to tackle the issue.
Mule dung menace to become energy source JAMMU, Feb 10: Though it remained a menace for decades together yet several tonnes of mule dung being littered every day on 13 kilometers track of holy cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishnodevi, is shortly going to become a source of energy generation …
