Year: 2021

Alok Sharma, the president of the UN climate conference in Scotland, had convened the final meeting of representatives from nearly 200 countries to deliver the Glasgow Climate Pact, a deal meant to ensure the world still has a chance to avert the worst impacts of global warming. It was moment born of weeks of arduous negotiation and months of painstaking preparations. Delegates in the plenary hall at COP26 were taking pictures to mark the historic moment. But as envoys prepared to take their seats to adopt the accord on Saturday…

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Minister for Energy Hammad Azhar informed the Senate on Friday that domestic gas reserves were depleting fast and the gas prices had not been increased since 2019. The Senate met under the chairmanship of Sadiq Sanjrani. Responding to a calling attention notice raised by senators Sherry Rehman and Saleem Mandviwalla about the ongoing crisis in the gas supply to consumers, both domestic and commercial, especially for the upcoming winter, he said smooth gas supply would be ensured during breakfast, lunch and dinner timings in the winter season. He said around…

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With the onset of winter, and prior to the arrival of tourists, the district administration has banned the use of gas cylinders for heating in hotels and guest houses in Murree. Civil Defence Department (CDD) District Officer (DO) Civil Defence Talib Hussain said that the ban has been implemented with immediate effect, and any hotels and guest houses found in violation of the prohibition would be sealed. A case would be registered against the owners and the authorities will not hesitate to make arrests. The implementation of the ban would…

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The earthquakes, magnitudes 6.4 and 6.3, hit Iran’s energy province of Hormozgan on the Persian Gulf, with the epicenter at the town of Laaft on Qeshm island. No infrastructure facilities were damaged on the island, where several oil and gas plants have been built or are under construction, state television reported. In Bandar Abbas, home to a 350,000 b/d refinery, some telecommunication and power systems have been cut and walls of houses have cracked, and a man was killed by a broken electrical power pole, according to local reports. But…

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Along with a solar farm and a battery, five giant wind turbines are powering much of the operations at the Agnew gold project, about 1,000 kilometres north-east of Perth. It is the first resources project anywhere in Australia to have a wind farm, but it is unlikely to be the last. What’s more, the mix of renewable energy sources to increasingly meet the needs of mines such as Agnew is set to be replicated across the country. “It’s been great,” says Stuart Mathews, the executive vice president of Gold Fields,…

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