A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the UN reported Thursday.
The government will launch a two-month campaign from November to popularise renewable energy and create awareness about energy conservation across the country.
This was decided yesterday at a meeting of the steering committee on renewable energy and energy conservation at Power and Energy Ministry.
The government has sought a loan of more than $350 million from the World Bank to boost its power sector and build pipelines to transmit natural gas to help ease its power crisis, a senior official said yesterday.
"We are almost in the final stage (of getting the loan approved) and the money will be utilised to implement a number of projects in the energy sector, including setting up a 300-megawatt (MW) power plant," a senior official of the Ministry of Energy said.
Soaring food and energy prices are likely to push five per cent of the population of the small island economies in the Pacific into poverty, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday.
Oil producers East Timor and Papua New Guinea, which is also boosted by high mineral prices, are
It appears that the draft coal policy began with a text heavily biased towards private investment and facilitating large margins of profit for the mining companies. Ideally, there should not be a problem with the private investor making large margins but not at the cost of national interests or doing away with all kinds of binding safeguards to protect the environment and livelihoods of thousands of people who would be displaced
Frequent power outages coupled with sweltering heat over the past four days have made life miserable in the Sylhet city and its adjoining areas.
Official and commercial activities as well as processing of tea-plants in the region are also being hampered due to the frequent power outages.
Sources in the Power Development Board, Sylhet said they had been supplying 40 megawatts of power against the daily demand of about 130 megawatts over the past four days.
Gas shortage has been worrying electricity officials, foreign financiers and private entrepreneurs about the future of power plants, already in the pipeline or even in operation.
Many cannot rest assured of required gas supply to power plants despite having prior assurance with Petrobangla as the country has been passing through its worst gas crisis in decades.
Some are planning to switch over to dual-fuel system so that diesel or furnace oil could be used for keeping the plants operational in case of gas failures, power officials said.
Power crisis will turn more severe this Ramadan than in the past as the power board projected less generation during evening peak hours this September. The interim government's steps to increase power generation has failed
Power Development Board officials at a meeting with the chief adviser's special assistant M Tamim on Tuesday projected the average generation during peak hours in September at 3,654MW, subject to the commissioning of a number of short-term rental and 90MW Fenchuganj power plants. Ramadan begins early September.
Eight out of ten factories and industrial parks in Vietnam breach environmental regulations, state media reported Thursday, citing a government study in the rapidly-industrialising country.
The survey of more than 400 enterprises found many
