Month: March 2022

Medical experts on Friday advised citizens not to consume soft drinks at iftar time because after sixteen hours of fasting, they start to retard kidney fuction. Talking to private news channel medical experts, however, they advised people to use home-made juices instead of soft drinks during iftar as it is easily absorbed during digestion.  “Home-made drinks like lemonade, milk soda and others are more efficient in combating thirst as compared to soft drinks,” they said, adding: Use of fizzy drinks lead to several diseases including, diarrhoea, gastroenteritis, dehydration, renal problems…

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If COP26 could not do much against oil and gas, the recent high prices have done the deserved or undeserved damage to the future of oil and gas. Renewable lobby has always considered low oil and gas prices to be a bad news, as it makes renewable uncompetitive and the drive to phase out fossil fuels goes into the back burner. Renewables like solar and wind power cost have come down independent of oil and gas prices and more improvement is expected in the future. It cannot be undone. Coal…

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Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives (MoPD&SI) has advised Power Division to seek guidance from Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) with respect to clearance of standard documents of Small Hydropower Projects (SHPPs) and clarification on previous decision, well informed sources told Business Recorder. The MoPD&SI has offered its comments in response to a letter of Managing Director Private Power & Infrastructure Board (PPIB) Shah Jahan Mirza in which the latter was requesting resolution of standard documents related issues. According to MD PPIB, the organisation is processing for the first time…

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Zainab BiZainab was given a Queen’s Young Leaders Award in 2016 for her work to promote renewable energy. She founded the Pakistan Society for Green Energy and developed an ethanol (a bio-fuel) from waste tissue paper, which could help to provide cleaner energy.

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Crude prices rose more than 1% to over $120 a barrel on Friday, as traders reconciled the impact of a missile attack on an oil distribution facility in Saudi Arabia with a possible release of oil reserves by the United States. Brent crude settled up $1.62, or 1.4%, to $120.65 a barrel and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ended at $1.56, or 1.4% higher, at $113.90. Both had dropped $3 earlier. Both benchmarks notched their first weekly gains in three weeks – Brent rose more than 11.5% and WTI…

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