Over Rs1.3tr injected into power sector
Over Rs 1.3 trillion has been injected in power sector during the last five years, but country is still suffering a loadshedding of 5000 – 6000MW. The issue of circular debt was also resolved by injecting
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Shanghai Pollution ‘Huge Health Risk’ as Smog Engulfs City
Shanghai entered a second week shrouded in smog as China’s commercial hub reported levels of the most-harmful air pollutants that were 12 times the maximum recommended by the World Health Organization.
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Restrict surplus coal transfer within end-use sector: Chaturvedi panel
Captive coal mining companies should be restricted from transferring surplus coal production outside their end-use sector, a high-level panel headed by Planning Commission member B K Chaturvedi has recommended.
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Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon
More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price
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Assessing “dangerous climate change”: Required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth’s measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon
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PCPIR project: Green tribunal issues notices to Tidco, chemicals and petrochemicals dept
The National Green Tribunal has issued notices to the department of chemicals and petrochemicals and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (Tidco) to give clarification on the status of the
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Law and order not ‘conducive’ for mining at Jharkhand’s Pakri Barwadih: NTPC
State-run NTPC today said the law and order situation is not “conducive” in Pakri Barwadih coal block area in Jharkhand for carrying out mining operations. “Land owners are agitating for a higher land compensation and the law and order situation in that area is not conducive,” NTPC CMD Arup Roy Choudhury told reporters here.
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Coal bio-reserve or mineral? Panchayat shoots letter to National Biodiversity Board
BHOPAL: A village panchayat in Chhindwara district has challenged Union environment ministry over its letter to National Biodiversity Board (NBA) wherein it refused to treat coal as a bio-resource.
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‘Coal block deallocation affecting our mining ops’
New Delhi : Slamming the decision to de-allocate their coal blocks, Jindal Steel and Power and Monnet Ispat and Energy have blamed lack of government approvals and external factors such as naxal activities
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Pakistan ranked seven with over 186 billion tonnes coal reserves
Pakistan is ranked 7th in the world, having around 186 billion tonnes of coal reserves, sufficient to meet the country's future power generation requirements. Talking to APP, an official of Ministry of