Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, has vowed to build the “biggest dam in Pakistan’s history”. The 272-metre-tall Diamer Basha dam will be able to store up to eight million acre feet (MAF) of water. Khan has also promised to build more dams to generate “clean electricity”; this one will generate 4,500 megawatts. Not all are convinced, and some…
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ISLAMABAD, July 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For 20 years, Khunjerab National Park was a point of tension between Pakistan’s government – which established the park in 1975 as a sanctuary for rare species – and locals who had grazed their livestock on the land for generations. As disputes over the land raged, poachers decimated Khunjerab’s wildlife, villagers say –…
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday sought an explanation from the chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) over the construction of a club near Rawal Lake. The court issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a citizen against the construction of the Navy Club and denial of citizens’ access to the lake. “The chairman, Capital…
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The UN Secretary-General has told a meeting of ministers it is “vital” the world moves towards clean energy. Antonio Guterres said decisions on recovery strategies must account for the need to transition to a more sustainable future. He was speaking at the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Clean Energy Transitions Summit. The virtual meeting is being billed as the year’s largest…
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PESHAWAR: The provincial government has raised its concerns over neglecting the hydropower projects of the province in the 27-year indicative generation capacity expansion plan of the federal government. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood made these remarks during a hearing of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) regarding the proposed Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan (IGCEP) 2020-47. The hearing which…
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WASHINGTON: Warning that a true economic recovery from the global coronavirus pandemic remains “in the distant future,” a top World Bank official on Friday urged G20 nations to extend debt relief for the poorest nations. Cautioning policymakers not to “confuse rebound with recovery,” newly-installed World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart called for an extension to the existing debt moratorium. G20…
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ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) linked the resumption of Extended Fund Facility Programme to “clear” plan of power tariff adjustment, mobilization of taxes as well as amendments in the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) for quarterly adjustments in tariff and changes in the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) law. Background interaction with officials of Finance Ministry revealed the…
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After being “dropped” from a key rail project in southeastern Iran along the border with Afghanistan, India is also set to lose an ambitious gas field project in the country that had been in the pipeline for past 10 years. India’s Ministry of External Affairs in a statement on Thursday said Tehran would develop the Farzad-B gas field in the…
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Work has started on the world’s longest electricity interconnector – which will eventually help share cheap, clean energy between the UK and northern Europe. National Grid’s Viking Link will stretch 475 miles from Bicker Fen, near Boston, in Lincolnshire, across the North Sea to Revsing in South Jutland, Denmark. Because wind generation outputs in the UK and Denmark often happen…
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U.S. regulators have approved a request from Kinder Morgan to authorize the start of the seventh train of the Elba Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Georgia, Reuters reported on Friday. Kinder Morgan owns 51 percent in the Elba Island LNG project which cost around US$2 billion. Trains one through six are already operational, with four more planned…
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