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Have you been shocked by the unduly large electricity bills you have been receiving recently? You are not alone. Families across the country have been forced to pay unfairly high electricity bills in the past few months as billing malpractices by Pakistani power companies have gone unchecked by the apex regulator, a new Geo News investigation has revealed. Meanwhile, despite being alerted to the issue, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), which, among other things, is tasked with protecting citizens from unlawful billing, seems to be taking a lax…

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Tauseef H. Farooqi, the chairman of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), said on Wednesday that in line with the initial estimates the rate of charging an electric car should be Rs47 per unit, Daily Times reported. while winding up the meeting held to fix the charging rates, the chairman said that the Authority would like to hold more such meetings soon turning to all those who have been affected by this decision. He further said that people could send their proposals to NEPRA concerning the fixation of the…

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The Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20C (68F) for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice. The 20.75C logged by Brazilian scientists at Seymour Island on 9 February was almost a full degree higher than the previous record of 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982. It follows another recent temperature record: on 6 February an Argentinian research station at Esperanza measured 18.3C, which was the highest reading on the continental Antarctic peninsula. These records will need to be…

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Coal will be a major contributor to Australia’s economy well beyond 2030 given growth in global demand, the country’s resources minister said on Monday, a day after a United Nations envoy called on the country to phase out the fossil fuel. Without greater efforts to cut coal, climate change will dramatically damage Australia’s economy, Selwin Hart, the United Nations special adviser on climate change, said in a speech in the capital Canberra on Sunday. Australia’s heavy reliance on coal-fired power makes it one of the world’s largest carbon emitters per capita, but…

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Karachi The participants of apublic hearing on Tuesday were given firm assurance that the operations ofPakistan’s first virtual LNG pipeline would fully comply with the local andinternational environmental safety standards. The SindhEnvironmental Protection Agency (SEPA) organised the public hearing at a hotelto invite comments from the concerned stakeholders on the Environmental ImpactAssessment Report of the proposed small scale LNG distribution network througha virtual pipeline. The LNG Easy (Pvt) Ltd is the proponent of the project thathas been undertaking similar operations in many regional countries includingexport of LNG from Singapore to Malaysia. The audience…

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