Year: 2020

The 83-page draft law – called the Environment Impact Assessment – has whipped up an firestorm of online protest. India uses this law to assess the potential impact of a development or industrial project on the environment. Critics say the new draft limits regulation of and public hearings over large infrastructure projects, exempts some projects from public consultation and promotes investor friendly profit-generating projects with faint understanding of their social consequences, among other things.And that’s not all. The government has also been blamed for trying to hurry through the crucial…

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LONDON: Crude oil prices rose on Tuesday, supported by production cuts in the US Gulf coast as tropical storm Laura was forecast to become a major hurricane, while rising coronavirus cases in Asia and Europe capped gains. Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 added $0.37, or 0.82%, to $45.50 a barrel by 1048 GMT and US West Texas Intermediate crude rose $0.15, or 0.35%, to $42.77 a barrel.  “Overall, hurricanes may be limiting supply this week, helping prices maintain and even slightly hike their levels, but the market will soon again…

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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has given verdict in unannounced load shedding case, terming it illegal and unconstitutional to provide free electricity to Wapda employees, ARY News reported on Tuesday. In a seven-page detailed verdict written by PHC Chief Justice Waqar Seth, the high court ordered Wapda for providing uninterrupted power supplies to the consumers who are clearing their utility bills. The consumers who are clearing their utility bills should not be punished due to the defaulters. It was the responsibility of Wapda and Pesco for recovering utility payments…

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Two provinces, Gilgit-Baltistan say federal govt providing least or no support to develop hydropower resource in their areas KarachiPunjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Gilgit-Baltistan, all have said that they have not been getting the desired cooperation from the federal authorities concerned to utilize the massive potential in their respective areas to generate hydroelectricity as one of the cheapest and environmental friendly source of energy for the country. The concerned authorities of two provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan region were speaking at the 1st International virtual conference on hydropower sector of Pakistan, organized by…

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Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey on Monday stressed on the need to convert sugar factories into a hub of bio-energy and other value-added products to become self-reliant. He also said there is a greater need for developing flexi sugar factories producing sugar and ethanol as per relative economics and market demand. The secretary was speaking after inaugurating a five-day online executive development programme organised by Kanpur-based National Sugar Institute. Around 100 senior executives from India and overseas sugar industries participated. “He stressed upon converting sugar factories into a hub of bio-energy…

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