Looking at ways to stop bulk diesel users from securing fuel from retail outlets

With dual pricing for diesel in place, oil marketing companies (OMCs) are looking at ways to stop bulk diesel users from securing the fuel from retail outlets. The three public sector OMCs — Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited — want the government to put in place regulations for this.

Assistant commissioner of police, Rajesh Pathak said: “The nature of the gas is still a mystery. We have asked Gujarat Pollution Control Board to submit their report at the earliest but there is no intimation from the agency yet. GPCB collected samples from the drain in Narol. We have begun hunting for chemical factories which may have dumped effluents illegally, causing the gas emission from the sewer. Without this GPCB report, we cannot proceed against people responsible for this.”

“The preliminary postmortem report says that the victims died of suffocation caused by gas. The gas was heavier than air and affected those sleeping on the floor.

Comparing the state-sponsored Global Trade Show 2013 which began on Tuesday as 'Kumbh Mela' of development, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said that six-day mega-trade fare would benefit the future generation of entrepreneurs.

The trade show, which is part of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit (VGGIS) 2013, is spread across an area of more than 1, 00,000 square meters and has participation from more than 1000 companies from 16 countries and various Governments. More than 1.5 million people are expected to visit the Global Trade Show, which is double than its previous edition held in 2011.

Vadodara: The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued a closure notice to a chemical manufacturing firm based in Nandesari on the outskirts of the city for discharging effluent in Mini river last month.

The environment watchdog of the state issued a closure notice to Unit-II and Unit-III of Panoli Intermediates (India) Pvt Ltd, which manufactures dye intermediate and other chemicals, on Wednesday.

Declining prices of carbon credits along with the lower probability of Annex 1 or developed countries agreeing to binding commitments after the expiry of first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 may hit the revenues of companies like SRF, ONGC, Navin Fluorine and Chemplast Sanmar, among others, which have registered their projects for the UN's clean development mechanism (CDM).

With prices of carbon permits having declined to a record low of 70 cents per unit, down from the peak of 17 euros, Indian firms — which sell about 90% of their total credits to Europe — might feel the tremors in the next few months.

A senior officer of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) was at the receiving end when angry residents of Kelwe, 90km from Mumbai, poured bottles of polluted water on him.

The company’s recently acquired plant in Ratnagiri is set to attract investments of Rs 80 crore

Omkar Speciality Chemicals Ltd, a leading specialty chemical manufacturer with about 80 diversified products in its portfolio, has chalked out Rs 150 crore capital expenditure for the next 18 months, to increase its production capacity to 3,650 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) from 950 mtpa now. According to Pravin S Herlekar, chairman and managing director, increased commercial production in all its plants is set to commence within 18 months.

Agartala: State-owned ONGC’s proposed gas-based fertiliser plant in Tripura would meet the growing shortage of urea in the eastern and northeastern states of India and neighbouring Bangladesh, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Wednesday.

ONGC in association with Tata Chemicals and the Tripura government would set up a Rs.5,000 crore plant in northern Tripura.

Officials in the coastal city of Ningbo, China, promised on Sunday night to halt the expansion of a petrochemical plant after thousands of demonstrators clashed with the police during three days of