The Union environment ministry has accorded clearance under the coastal zone regulations for enhancing the coal handling capacity, installation of a coal conveyor, stackyard and flue-gas desulfuris
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Ashok Khatari & Anr Vs Tata Power Co. Ltd & Ors. with APPEAL NO.22/2014 (WZ) Conservation Action Trust & Anr vs Union of India dated 15/04/2015 regarding establishment of Unit No.6 of the Tata Power Company Ltd. at Trombay Thermal Power Station at Mahul Road, District Chembur, Mumbai and change from an oil-based unit to a coal-run unit.
Shiv Sena threatens to explore legal course of action against nod
The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) attached to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MOEF) has accorded conditional environment clearance to Tata Power for converting the latter’s 500-Mw Trombay power plant to operate on coal, in place of low sulphur fuel and heavy stock.
Committee asks company to submit compliance report
The experts appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has deferred Tata Power's application for green note for converting a 500 -Mw oil-fired unit at its Trombay plant here to a coal-fired one.
NAGPUR: Even as public representatives of Vidarbha offer a token protest to large number of power plants coming up in Vidarbha, their counterparts in Mumbai forced Maharashtra Pollution Control Boa
The company plans to switch from gas to coal to fuel its 500 MW unit in Trombay
The public hearing called by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board on Monday to discuss the environmental impact of Tata Power Company’s plan to switch from gas to coal to fuel its 500 MW unit in the Trombay Thermal Power Station was disrupted by activists of all the major political parties in the State. The officials wrapped up the hearing, claiming it was impossible to conduct the proceedings.
Erratic supplies from KG D6 and limited import options have led to a fall in power output of gas-based plants in June, said a Central Electricity Authority (CEA) report.
The gross monthly generation by thermal, nuclear and hydro power stations, however, witnessed a positive growth in the period under consideration.
Two research scientists were killed after a fire broke out in a photochemistry laboratory in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, on Tuesday afternoon.
They were identified by the police as Umang Singh from Mumbai and Partha Pratim Bag from West Bengal, both PhD students in BARC
