Environment

Physico-chemical characteristics of flyash

It is well known that 50-60% of power generated in India is from thermal power stations. These thermal power plants use coal as a fuel. The high ash content of these coals pose a serious problem to the environment. The flyash production rate is about 25 million tonne for every 5 year.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2005
M. K. Bhatnagar, Prachi Bhatnagar, S. P. Singh
Pollution Research
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Environment, Birsingphur, Coal, Thermal Power Plants, Madhya Pradesh, Fly Ash, Pollution
Energy

 Black money

Economic concerns make the US promote unclean fuel

Publication Date: 
30/08/2005
Ritu Gupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Coal, Energy Policy, Energy, Energy Technology, Subsidies, United States Of America (US)
India

 Crude shock

Click here to view the factsheet (.pdf format)

Publication Date: 
14/07/2005
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Coal, Oil, Statistics
India

 Beijing s Green Olympics

A black countdown in West Bengal, India

Publication Date: 
14/06/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Animal Diseases, Livestock, Cattle, Iron And Steel Industry, Health Effects, Coal, Tuberculosis, Electricity, Thermal Power Plants, Panchayats, India, West Bengal
Mining

 Wary of mining

The residents of La Sierra de Perija, in the oil producing state of Zulia in west Venezuela, recently launched a strong protest opposing coal mining in the area. The Bar

Publication Date: 
30/05/2005
Down to Earth
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Mining, Coal, Venezuela
Mining

 Deep despair

20,000 workers die in China s coal mines every year

Publication Date: 
14/04/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mining, Coal, Occupational Health, Private Sector, Legislation, China, Statistics
Mining

 In short

too demanding: The Uttar Pradesh government decided on December 14, 2004, to constitute an Irrigation Development and Flood Control Commission. The move is allegedly aimed at merely including

Publication Date: 
14/01/2005
Down to Earth
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Mining, Coal, Workers, Poverty, Politics, China, Uttar Pradesh, European Union (EU)
Energy

 Coal rush

What s behind the huge spurt in coal generation investments in the US?

Publication Date: 
30/12/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
UNFCCC, Coal, Energy, Power Industry, Technology
India

 Black attack

Has the Union ministry of environment and forests laid malicious siege to Dahanu taluka, in Maharashtra s Thane district?

Publication Date: 
14/12/2004
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Fisheries, Coal, Electricity, Thermal Power Plants, Legislation, Supreme Court, India, Maharashtra, Fly Ash
Mining

 Time to bid adieu

April 23 marked the end of the 300-year-old coal mining industry in France. On that day, the last symbolic block of coal was extracted from the La Houve mine near the town of Creutzwald, abutting the

Publication Date: 
30/05/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mining, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Nuclear Power, Emissions Trading, Energy, Economic Development, Industry, China, France

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