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 …
The UK government is to launch an environmental study on marine energy projects in England and Wales, paving the way for commercial wave and tidal devices to be deployed. Lord Hunt, Climate Change Minister, told a conference the government would start screening for the Strategic Environmental Assessment for marine energy …
How do you choose between a wilderness and a power station? The tough choices associated with large-scale renewable energy projects are dividing the green movement.
The Guardian There has never been a more important time to invest in green technologies, yet many of us believe these efforts are doomed to failure, writes Chris Goodall Myth 1: solar power is too expensive to be of much use In reality, today
The unwavering predictability and scale of the tides in some parts of the world make them an attractive renewable energy source. Some estimates put the energy in the world's tides at as much as 1 million GWh per year, or about 5 per cent of the electricity generated worldwide, though …
Wildlife and environmental groups are opposing the construction of the world's largest tidal power scheme on grounds that it will damage a unique ecosystem and that it will cost too much.
The neglect of India's energy resources and the failure to adopt a scientific approach to maximise their use are unforgivable, and the simultaneous pursuit of exotic treaties is unfortunate. India faces the peril of sharp energy inadequacy today
Irving Oil Ltd, which is planning a second major refinery in New Brunswick, will study the potential for a tidal power development in the Bay of Fundy, site of the world's highest tides, the privately held company said Monday. Irving has teamed up with the non-profit Huntsman Marine Science Centre …
The world's largest tidal turbine, weighing 1,000 tonnes, has been installed in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough. It is the first commercial tidal turbine, which will generate enough energy to power a thousand local homes. The turbine will begin operations later this year. It will be positioned 400 metres off the …
quakes can be triggered by tides, as per researchers from the us-based University of California. The tides are produced by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on the earth, causing the ocean water to rise and fall periodically. This, in turn, raises and lowers the stress on the …
although Gujarat continues to be engulfed by the Sardar Sarovar dam controversy, yet the state government has embarked on an even more ambitious mega venture that throws up several environmental concerns. On February 5, chief minister (cm) Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Rs 54,000-crore Kalpasar multi-purpose tidal …
all the three partners in the coalition government of Sweden ratified a new energy policy allowing trading certificates in renewable energy. Under the new system guaranteed investment subsidies for particular forms of energy will be eliminated and replaced by market-based
• A RS 4.5-crore, 100-kw solar photovoltaic power plant -- Asia's largest -- is to be commissioned by Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao in May 1993 at Kalyanpur village in Aligarh district. • A Rs 4,000-crore, 100-mw tidal wave power project in the Gulf of Kutch is being reviewed. …
With the resource crunch persisting, won't you find it difficult to raise funds for the revised target of 2,000 mw for power generation from non-conventional energy in the Eighth Plan ? Funds will be mobilised through private sector investments, loans from financial institutions and assistance from international agencies in addition …
Mini-micro hydel: Indian technologists developed mini-hydel systems more than 100 years ago, but in the post-Independence emphasis on the new "temples of modern India" -- huge dams and power stations -- mini-micro hydel systems were neglected. In 1989, however, hydro projects below 3 mw were transferred from the power ministry …
