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With generous dispensing of cheap diesel to rich car owners, the government has finally turned the market around. Media is abuzz with the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell’s report. It says the diesel consumption growth rate at 6.4 per cent has outstripped that of petrol at 4.5 per cent. Petrol price hikes have made the fuel price gap gape wider and add to diesel’s lure.

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Energy

Energy without the dirt? Making a case for the integration of biomass into energy policy in Nigeria

The energy poverty that typifies rural areas of developing countries in Africa is staggering in its proportions. These areas have become trapped in subsistence-level economies characterised by inefficient use of

Publication Date:

01/11/2009

Author(s): Temilade Sesan

Source: Boiling Point

Vol:

0

Issue:

57

pp:

42

Tags:

Indoor Air Pollution, Firewood, Energy Policy, Biomass, Solar Energy, Energy, Household Energy, Chulhas (Cookstoves), WHO, Nigeria

Environment

Call for addressing environmental issues on war footing

Senior Political Assistant to Chief Minister Punjab, Muhammad Pervez Malik has called for taking measures on war footing basis to check rapidly increasing environmental pollution, as environmental issues may hamper the country's economy.

Publication Date:

06/06/2009

Source: Business Recorder (Pakistan)

Tags:

Environment, Health Effects, Asthma, Economy, Energy, WHO, Pakistan, Lahore, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)

Environment

Nine Dangerous Chemicals Added To Global Banned List

Nine dangerous chemicals used in farming and industry will be added to a list of banned substances whose presence in the environment causes serious health risks, more than 160 government agreed on Saturday.

The nine pesticides and industrial chemicals join 12 substances targeted for elimination under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

Publication Date:

11/05/2009

Source: Planet Ark (Australia)

Tags:

Environment, Pesticides, Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Malaria, DDT, Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Products, Economic Development, UNEP, WHO, Toxins

Pesticides And Toxins

Mercury contamination in fish in West Bengal: summary of the findings

Mercury is one of the most dangerous environmental pollutants, both in its elemental form and in chemical combination. When mercury is released into the environment it gets transformed into methyl mercury through microbial action. The methylation of mercury is a key step in the entrance of mercury into food chains. This methyl mercury is mercury in its most pernicious form.

Publication Date:

01/02/2009

Source: Toxics Link

Tags:

Food Contamination, Food Adulteration, Food Additives, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Fish, Health Effects, Mercury, FAO, WHO, West Bengal, Toxins

Energy

News 360 - Brief

nuclear energy Private players? Private players may soon be allowed entry into nuclear energy production. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said as much minutes before he went in to deliberate on the draft Integrated Energy Policy with the plan panel. The law will, however, have to be amended to allow the private sector to set up nuclear plants, he added.

Publication Date:

14/10/2008

Source: Down to Earth

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