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Energy

Provisional coal statistics 2008-09

For progressive improvement in the economic growth of a developing country like India, sustainable energy supply is of paramount significance. Coal, being a relatively cheap and abundant energy resource in contrast to a very low hydrocarbon resource potential in India, remains the focus of attention of the energy planners ever since the oil crunch of the early

Publication Date: 
01/04/2009
Coal Controllers Organisation
Tags:
Mining, Coal, Energy, Ministry of Coal, India, Statistics, Coal Industry, Coal India, Singareni Collieries Co
Energy

Poison gas powers lives - Moonidih methane harnessed to light up 300 homes

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Publication Date: 
13/11/2008
Telegraph (Ranchi)
Tags:
Coal, Poisonous Gases, Energy, Research Agencies, UNDP, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Dhanbad (D), Coal Industry
India

 Consigned to flames

Central and state authorities fiddle while underground coalfields burn in Jharia in the state of Jharkhand

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mining, Rehabilitation, Technology, Research, Governance, India, Jharkhand, Coal Industry
Mining

 Fuelling pollution

norway's plan to increase coal mining from Arctic Svalbard has invited the ire of environmentalists. The greens say that coal is the most polluting source of power and can wreak havoc on the

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Mining, Coal, Emissions Trading, Norway, Coal Industry
Environment

 Parking poison

Coal based plants spew mercury

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Health Effects, Emissions Trading, Mercury, Environmental Science, Research, United States Of America (US), Coal Industry, Toxins
Mining

 Plans gone awry

The current attitude of BCCL, according to Jharia Bachao Abhiyan Samiti, is contrary to its declared Rs 10,000 crore rehabilitation plan which it had proudiy announced in 1984. Sources within the

Publication Date: 
14/08/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mining, Rehabilitation, Bihar, Coal Industry

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