The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources held a meeting in Colombo to launch a national compliance action plan (NCAP) for the next eight years (2003-2010) to phase out the use of ozone

The Ceylon Motor Traders Association [CMTA] (Sri Lanka) will help the City Police conduct surprise checks on diesel vehicles. "We are also conducting a public awareness programme to enlighten the

Government said yesterday said that an additional 500 mega watts will be added to the national grid within the next two years. Non conventional power generating sources will be utilized for this purpose. This will be done utilizing wind power Dendron and Bio gas projects.

The Western Provincial Council (WPC) is planning to use wind power to illuminate Colombo city in association with Concurrent (India) Infrastructure Ltd an Indian based private company, while there is another plan in the pipeline to use wind power for the streetlamps islandwide.

The German Cultural Centre in Colombo (Goethe- Institute), the Ruhuna University and Ambewela farms are joining together to construct an industrial level bio gas plant for the first time in Sri Lanka with the assistance of German scientists to generate electricity.

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