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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday sou­ght an explanation from the chairman of the Capital Deve­lopment Authority (CDA) over the construction of a club near Rawal Lake. The court issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a citizen against the construction of the Navy Club and denial of citizens’ access to the lake. “The chairman, Capital Development Authority, shall, inter alia, explain in the report under what authority of law permission has been granted (for construction of the club) and general public denied access to a…

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Work has started on the world’s longest electricity interconnector – which will eventually help share cheap, clean energy between the UK and northern Europe. National Grid’s Viking Link will stretch 475 miles from Bicker Fen, near Boston, in Lincolnshire, across the North Sea to Revsing in South Jutland, Denmark. Because wind generation outputs in the UK and Denmark often happen at different times it means surplus electricity can be shared, helping the the UK’s journey to becoming net zero. On top of that it will give Britain access to a…

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U.S. regulators have approved a request from Kinder Morgan to authorize the start of the seventh train of the Elba Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Georgia, Reuters reported on Friday. Kinder Morgan owns 51 percent in the Elba Island LNG project which cost around US$2 billion. Trains one through six are already operational, with four more planned for this year, Kinder Morgan said earlier this year. Elba Island began LNG exports in December last year, but hasn’t exported superchilled fuel from the facility since January because the…

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KARACHI: K-Electric (KE) Limited has agreed to buy up to 6 megawatt (MW) of electricity from Lucky Cement’s captive power plant, which would be supplied to DHA City Karachi being developed along Superhighway, a statement said on Wednesday. According to the statement, Lucky Cement’s 29.7 MW gas-fired thermal power plant has a generation licence issued by National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) and can supply from 1 to 6 MW power to K-Electric for onward delivery to DHA City for consumption. DHA City is without electricity since 2011. There is…

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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has picked up pace once again as China has invested more than $11 Billion in Pakistan in 2020 alone. This is the second biggest amount of Chinese investment in a single year after 2015 which witnessed a total investment of over $12 billion. The progress over the CPEC appeared to have stalled between 2017 and 2019 due to the relatively low amount of Chinese investment. However, CPEC has been reinvigorated since the appointment of Lt Gen (r) Asim Saleem Bajwa as the Chairman of the CPEC…

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