The UK government is expected to soften the blow of the $2.90bn climate change levy by offering larger rebates for energy intensive industries when it announces the details next

Oil India Ltd (OIL) has suspended operations in its Khagorigan Oil fields in Assam following an agitation by the local villagers against alleged pollutin caused in the river Brahmaputra.Oil was

Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) is seeking mega power project status for all residue-based power plants. This assumes significance as Hindustan Petroleum Corpn and the Reliance group are also setting up

Ontario Power Generation, the Canadian electricity utility, has bought credits to cover the emission of 2.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide from Zahren Alternative Power Corporation, a Connecticut-based

At a technical conference-cum-seminar on petroleum industry in Islamabad recently, the speakers who were mostly associated with the oil companies referred to the on-going deadlock in the fixation of

The first phase of the construction of the Sino-Russian Tianwan nuclear power station in Eastern China will cost $3.2 billion, the Financial News reported. That would include $300 million provided

In a bid to stem air pollution, Shanghai plans to spend 400 million yuan ($48 million) to pipe natural gas into 2.5 million households by 2010, the official Shanghai Daily said. Some 100,000

A senior citizen's council has woken up to the long-standing probelm of polluiton caused by the Gujarat Electricity Board run thermal power station, situated in the north of the state

India's nuclear power programme is expected to receive a body blow following a potential threat of uranium shortage. As against a minimum requirement of 400 tonnes of uranium for the ten operating

U.S. oil firm Phillips Petroleum pleased environmentalists with a $1.1 billion plan to remove oil and gas installations from a Norwegian North Sea field in one of the world's biggest offshore