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 …
australia's greenhouse gas emissions have increased by at least 16.9 per cent during 1990-98, according to a government survey. This means that it has crossed its Kyoto Climate Change Protocol target, which stipulates an eight per cent increase by 2010. A survey conducted by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory shows …
the wind energy generation in the United Kingdom is expected to be severely hit by a new legislation. Under the New Electricity Trading Arrangements ( neta ), electricity supply should be accurately predicted at least three and a half hours before its delivery. Because the supply of wind energy cannot …
despite global opposition, the French government has decided not to reduce its dependence on nuclear power. According to Christian Pierret, the country's junior minister for industry, though France has tapped the hydropower potential to the maximum, it still gets 80 per cent of its electricity from nuclear energy. Non-fossil energy …
Humans have not being able to shed their reliance on fossil fuels. Every year, millions of tonnes of coal and oil is burned to produce energy. As a result, carbon locked in the Earth is being released into the atmosphere. This has led to a significant increase in the Earth's …
a connecticut, us -based company is all set to offer its customers a new power alternative called "green" electricity. This, it says, is not generated from oil or nuclear reactors, but from renewable sources like wind, water and methane gas. Though the electricity would be costlier by us $5-6 a …
India's Union minister for petroleum, Ram Naik, lives in the dinosaur age. Only Indian politics can throw up such archaic thinkers, given the pits it has reached. At the 16th World Petroleum Congress, held recent in Calgary, where some 2,000 people were demonstrating and asking for public policies to bring …
Wind power is constantly emerging as a preferred source of energy the world over. Fast forward by another couple of decades and wind power is predicted to meet 10 per cent of the world's electricity requirements even if consumption increases by double the current rate. Pollution free and never likely …
following the Arab oil embargo in 1973, when queues for petrol lengthened at petrol pumps all over usa and Europe, the Wall Street Journal carried a front-page feature on a South American community that had "solved" the energy crisis by devising equipments powered by renewable energy sources. The report was …
H B MATHUR While the last century belonged to liquid fuels, this century is going to witness a preference for gaseous fuels, which are renewable and also comparatively cleaner. With time there is bound to be a shift towards gaseous fuels such as natural gas and ultimately hydrogen, which is …
There is a continuing preference for energy sources like coal, oil and gas among the industrialised nations. This trend persists against the use of more environment-friendly energy sources like geothermal, solar, hydro and combustible renewables and waste. Even today, despite the environmental concerns expressed worldwide, the total primary energy supply …
A plan to build 26 windmills in Maasoey, in the northern Norwegian county of Finnmark, has been approved, giving the go-ahead for the construction of the country's biggest windmill park, reported the Reuters news agency. The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) also said it would grant the developer, …
there is no doubt that air pollution will be of even greater significance in the next millennium. From the first century, when Roman philosopher Seneca complained about air pollution, to recent times, the problem has grown to assume grave dimensions. It is in the light of this that a book …
solar and wind power projects will prove to be profitable if governments and oil companies get behind them, speakers told a Greenpeace business conference recently. "To get such a different system to work, it is going to take tremendous levels of investment, major policy changes and a willingness to change,' …
how long can the world's energy resources sustain a population of six billion? According to Worldwatch Institute reports, consumption of resources are so high that the world will probably run out of resources by the next century. The depletion has led to an increase in heat-trapping atmospheric carbon at the …
uk's future Energy, a green energy accreditation scheme, is designed to give consumers the choice to buy electricity derived from environmentally-friendly sources. But Friends of the Earth ( f o e ), a non-governmental organisation ( ngo ), has accused the government of watering down the labelling system by including …
tapping the potential of wind power is no longer difficult or expensive. Technology to harness this natural force is not only improving, but more nations are finding this alternative source of p ower more desirable because it is locally available, cheap to produce and does not dirty the environment. It …
