Biotech, a Thiruvananthapuram-based institution, which is engaged in bio-waste management and non-conventional energy generation programmes, has acquired an innovative technology for generating diesel from plastic waste.

The technology developed in Austria is being promoted in India by the TVS Group.

Union Ministry holds up eco clearance for various projects

Main sources of pollution are industries, municipal garbage and hospital waste

Industries agree to spend Rs.

KOCHI: The lakhs of rupees spent by the Kochi Corporation to set up biogas plants in the city have gone down the drain as the majority of them are inoperative.

KOCHI: The Kerala State Electricity Board will distribute two 14-watt compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) to the households that come under the Kaloor electrical section, from Tuesday.

Kalpana Pathak & Sanjay Jog / Mumbai April 06, 2010, 1:12 IST

Petronet LNG (PLL) is in talks with West Asian countries, including Qatar, to secure gas supply for its Kochi terminal. Petronet has already tied up for 1.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) LNG from the proposed Gorgon project in Australia for its 2.5-mtpa LNG terminal in Kochi, which is expected to be operational in 2012.

KOCHI: With climate change and energy crisis fast becoming a reality, scientists all over the world have started looking for solutions to tide over the crisis.

Byju Aryad

KOCHI: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has officially announced that the drilling off Kochi in the Kerala-Konkan basin, the oil well KK4C-A at a distance of 70 nautical miles from the coast, was abandoned and added that efforts to extend the exploration in the basin will continue.

KOCHI: As per schedule it would have taken three days for the KSEB to complete the repair work. But the work along the Edappally-Kaloor 110 KV feeder lines was completed on the first day itself, thanks to proper planning and team work.

2 Gujarat clusters top the PCB pollution list.

Ankleshwar in Gujarat topped the list with a CEPI score of 88.5, followed by Vapi (88.09), Ghaziabad (87.37) and Chandrapur (83.88).

The Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) of the Central Pollution Control Board has found that the Greater Cochin industrial cluster area is critically polluted.

KOCHI: The early results of the ultra-deep oil explorations in the Kerala-Konkan basin by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation will be available in 100 days, according to ONGC Chairman and Managing Director R.S. Sharma.

He was talking to journalists here on Sunday after inaugurating

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