German nuclear plants could start shutting in 2002 following an agreement by the government and the power industry to end the country's use of atomic energy, the environment minister said. A deal

Jurgen Trittin, Germany's Green environment minister, described Berlin's deal to shut down the country's 19 nuclear power stations, struck in the early hours, as "a difficult but defensible

On the face of it, the German nuclear industry has done well in postponing for many years the threatened closure of its power plants. The 32-year old limit agreed with Chancellor Gerhard Schroder was

Twenty-five years ago, Nirmal N Saigal, inventor-technocrat, approached the government to formulate a policy on ethanol as an alternative fuel. Since then, most countries have woken up to the virtues

The State Cabinet today decided to provide escrow facility to the 220 MW barge-mounted Tannirbhavi power project near Mangalore following a Karnataka High Court judgement. The government decided not

The Bangladesh Energy Ministry has finally backed out of approving the Western Region Intergrated Project (WRIP) and decided that Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited

Ram naik: Petroleum minister Ram Naik says there is a degree of extremism among environmentalists who have been demonstrating against the ongoing 16th World Petroleum Congress in the Canadian city of

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and the bosses of Germany's nuclear power plants agreed today on a plan to end the country's use of atomic energy, clinching a deal that has eluded Schroeder's

Despite opposition in Germany and elsewhere to the continuing use of nuclear power, the European Commissioner responsible for energy policy, Loyola de Palacio, warns that without the atom the

Once dismissed in the United States as an irrelevant relic of the 1970s, liquefied natural gas has been staging a quiet comeback, helping to satisfy a growing appetite among electricity generators