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The General Assembly of the World Wind Energy Association has re-elected Hon. Peter Rae AO (Australia) for a another term as WWEA President. The WWEA General Assembly took place in Rimini/Italy, on the occasion of the 20th World Wind Energy Conference WWEC2022. WWEA President Peter Rae: “I am grateful that the WWEA members have expressed their confidence in me by electing me for another term and I would like to thank them for their strong support in advancing WWEA’s mission. I am pleased about the new board and in particular that we…

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Minister of State for Petroleum Dr Musadik Malik on Friday said the government was committed to exploiting indigenous hydrocarbon resources for achieving self-sustenance in the energy sector. Addressing a news conference, he said a plan was being devised to provide effective package of incentives to both local and foreign exploration and production (E&P) companies to step up drilling activities in potential areas across the country. Country’s existing gas deposits were facing depletion at the rate of 10% annually for the last five to six years. It was essential to discover…

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The Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change on Thursday was left baffled when it learnt that the United Kingdom, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States of America, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Canada and Italy, were the top-10 countries, respectively, exporting waste to Pakistan. The committee was shocked to see the names of some of the friendly countries as well as those often found voicing concerns on climate change issues among the top-10 countries dumping their waste in Pakistan, questioning why no one ever objected to “imported waste”. The words…

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After increasing petrol and diesel prices, the government on Friday also raised the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) rates by Rs2 per kg for the current month, according to a notification issued by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority. The LPG Distributors Association said the price now jumped to Rs220 per kg from Rs218. The domestic LPG cylinder will now cost Rs2,601 against Rs2,581 and the commercial cylinder Rs10,007 against Rs9,932. “The LPG is a fuel of poor people. And now it also seems going out of their buying capacity,” the…

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The government on Friday said the energy prices will keep increasing for the next three to four months because of ‘landmines laid by Imran Khan’ and then start a downward trend in November–December this year. Speaking at separate news conferences here, energy ministers – Khurram Dastgir and Musadik Malik – on Friday said the previous government had tied their hands with legal compulsions for price and there was no way out of the quagmire to provide upfront relief to the people before the completion of corrective reforms. Both ministers said…

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