RHETORIC is a sad fact of political life, and most voters are smart enough to know that grand promises made in the heat of a parliamentary debate or an election battle should be taken with a pinch of salt. But on energy policy the gap between claim and reality is now wide enough to be embarrassing.

An ambitious cross-subsidy scheme has given rise to a new industry

The Electricity Supply Board has urged government to consider various ways in which different modes of transport could be powered by electricity as a way of reducing Ireland's carbon emissions and meeting EU targets. Speaking at the Irish Management Institute national conference, ESB chief executive Padraig McManus said that the ESB was working towards having zero net carbon emissions by 2035. He estimated that it would take 2,000 megawatts a day to power all of Ireland's cars, noting that this could easily be supplied by electricity companies during the night, when demand is low.

Even allowing for the low expectations we bring to any lame duck president's final state of the Union address

The growth rate of six of the country's key infrastructure industries' accelerated to 8.7 per cent in February against 7.6 per cent in the same month a year ago, reviving hopes that industrial production would speed up and help arrest the current economic slowdown. However, the overall growth rate of these sectors for the 11 months from April to February 2007-08 remained lower at 5.6 per cent than 8.7 per cent for the corresponding period of fiscal 2006-07, due to below 5 per cent growth in the preceding four months.

Bharat Nirman, the Centre's massive four-year

On the first day of the new financial year, there was a sense of d

Development Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan on Wednesday informed the State Assembly that the Delhi Government has paid Rs.

In the face of severe criticism from the Opposition on the issue of power distribution, supply and billing, Power Minister A.K.

Rapid growth is exacting a heavy environmental price-----------