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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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Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo, while defending a recently signed agreement on the Reko Diq copper and gold mining project with a Canadian company, has disclosed that a Saudi Arabian firm would set up a refinery in Gwadar to assess the quantity of minerals extracted from the site. “I have taken all political leaders, parties and public representatives into confidence before signing the Reko Diq project, which will prove a gateway for foreign investment in Balochistan as [Canadian firm] Barrick Gold Corporation will invest $10 billion,” he said during an…

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Experts have said that Thar’s residents are still forced to consume water from wells contaminated with toxic waste being discharged by coal mining companies, which is in serious violation of the Sindh Environment Protection Act. They said it in a webinar titled ‘Coal-induced Water Woes of Tharis’ held recently by the Alliance for Climate Justice & Clean Energy (ACJCE), a coalition of think tanks and civil society organisations working on energy transition in Pakistan. A short documentary was also screened at the webinar, highlighting the ground reality and magnitude of…

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