Public awareness about the "catastrophe" of climate change is not high enough to pressure politicians into taking action, former Vice President Al Gore said on Tuesday.

Gore, who shared a Nobel Prize in 2007 for his environmental campaigning, said politicians will only do more once the people who elect them force the issue.

The power demand of the State has doubled in recent years. Against the peak-load-hour demand of 430 MW in 2000, a survey conducted about a month back revealed that the State now requires around 1,000 MW of power during this period.

Sri Lanka government said that the electricity charges in the country would be reduced after the establishment of Norochcholai Coal Power Plant.

Sanjay Jog

LUCKNOW: It's red alarm from the Northern Regional Power Committee (NRPC), the apex body to review power situation in the northern states, vis-a-vis power situation in Uttar Pradesh.

Technology to capture carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and store them underground will be ready by 2015 and could be in wide use in the United States by 2020, according to the top executive at American Electric Power Co Inc.

Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Wednesday informed the National Assembly that the government was compelled to depend on thermal power generation for meeting a gap of 3,000MW on top priority basis.

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