Energy

Upbeat on KG Basin, ONGC Targets 55m Units of Gas by ’16

Co hopes to finalise equity deal by this month-end for its KG block that lies next to RIL’s D6 field

Publication Date: 
23/07/2012
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mahanadi, River Basin, Natural Gas, Krishna, Godavari, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Daman (D), Petrochemical Industry, Energy
Energy

Centre seeks SC clarity on RIL-KG basin verdict

AG: Public Trust Doctrine For Gas Creates Confusion

Publication Date: 
20/07/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
River Basin, Supreme Court, Reliance Petrochemicals, Krishna, Godavari
Energy

Green signal for RIL’s KG-D6 capex plans

The petroleum ministry on Tuesday promised expeditious clearances to a proposal made by Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries (RIL) and partner BP India to make fresh investments at four blocks at

Publication Date: 
18/07/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Krishna, River Basin, Reliance Petrochemicals, Petrochemical Industry, Oil Exploration, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Cauvery, Natural Gas Exploration
Biodiversity

Protected landscapes and wild biodiversity

Protected Landscapes are a strong option for biodiversity conservation in human-influenced landscapes and seascapes. They often contain threatened or endemic species. There is now also a growing interest in the nature conservation benefits of protected landscapes. But do protected landscapes really protect wild biodiversity?

Publication Date: 
01/07/2012
Nigel Dudley, Sue Stolton
IUCN
Tags:
Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, India, Global, Protected Area Conservation, Wildlife, Ecosystems, River Basin, Forests
Energy

Reliance agrees to feed gas to Bawana plant, city’s power supply to improve

The erratic power supply that has been troubling the city this summer will improve as gas to feed the new Bawana power plant could be available soon, said Power officials.

Publication Date: 
25/06/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Power Industry, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), Energy, Electricity, Andhra Pradesh, River Basin, Delhi
Dams/ Irrigation

Ganga panel to study impact of hydel projects

Caught in a controversy over the purity and sanctity of the Ganga, threatened supposedly by hydroelectric projects, the government has formed a high-level expert committee under Planning Commission

Publication Date: 
07/06/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ganga, Hydroelectricity, River Basin, Ministry Of Water Resources, High Court, Delhi, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Dams/ Irrigation
Energy

CAG starts 2nd audit of oil & gas blocks

New Delhi: Even as the coalgate controversy rages, the UPA government could be staring at another damaging report from its official auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General, as it has started i

Publication Date: 
02/06/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tapi, Oil Exploration, Natural Gas Exploration, Energy, Panna (D), Petrochemical Industry, River Basin
Climate Change

Impact of climate change on flood characteristics in Brahmaputra basin using a macro-scale distributed hydrological model

Being the highest specific discharge river system in the world, the Brahmaputra river experiences a number of long-duration flood waves during the monsoon season annually. In order to assess the flood characteristics at the basin and tributary scales, a physically based macro-scale distributed hydrological model (DHM) has been calibrated and validated for 9 wet years. The model performance has been evaluated in terms of prediction of the flood characteristics such as peak discharge, flood duration, arrival time of flood wave, timing of the peak flow and number of flood waves per season.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012
Shyamal Ghosh, Subashisa Dutta
Journal of Earth System Science
121
3
637–657
Tags:
Brahmaputra, Floods, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Monsoons, River Basin, Hydrology
Water Resources

Water poverty of Indrawati basin: analysis and mapping

The idea of a Water Poverty Index (WPI) with a numerical value was formulated by scientists in an effort to express the complex relationship between sustainable water resource management and poverty at all units of human organization, all the way from community to nation.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012
WWF Nepal
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Indravati, River Basin, Nepal, South Asia, Poverty
Water Resources

International waters: delivering results

Since 1991, UNDP-GEF’s International Waters Programme has been supporting over one hundred countries that share some of the world’s largest and most important aquatic ecosystems to work cooperatively in addressing the agreed priority environmental and water resource concerns facing such waterbodies.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012
Stephen Maxwell Donker, David Vousden, Nico E. Willemse, & et al
UNDP
Tags:
Water Resources, Marine Ecosystems, Lakes, Rivers, India, Global, Environment, Fisheries, River Basin, Land Degradation, Wetlands, Coastal Development

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