Medical experts on Friday advised citizens not to consume soft drinks at iftar time because after sixteen hours of fasting, they start to retard kidney fuction. Talking to private news channel medical experts, however, they advised people to use home-made juices instead of soft drinks during iftar as it is easily absorbed during digestion. “Home-made drinks like lemonade, milk soda…
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If COP26 could not do much against oil and gas, the recent high prices have done the deserved or undeserved damage to the future of oil and gas. Renewable lobby has always considered low oil and gas prices to be a bad news, as it makes renewable uncompetitive and the drive to phase out fossil fuels goes into the back…
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Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives (MoPD&SI) has advised Power Division to seek guidance from Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) with respect to clearance of standard documents of Small Hydropower Projects (SHPPs) and clarification on previous decision, well informed sources told Business Recorder. The MoPD&SI has offered its comments in response to a letter of Managing Director Private Power &…
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Zainab BiZainab was given a Queen’s Young Leaders Award in 2016 for her work to promote renewable energy. She founded the Pakistan Society for Green Energy and developed an ethanol (a bio-fuel) from waste tissue paper, which could help to provide cleaner energy.
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Crude prices rose more than 1% to over $120 a barrel on Friday, as traders reconciled the impact of a missile attack on an oil distribution facility in Saudi Arabia with a possible release of oil reserves by the United States. Brent crude settled up $1.62, or 1.4%, to $120.65 a barrel and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ended…
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For quick disposal of solar net metering connection-related applications, we have allowed the respective power distribution companies (Discos) to approve applications seeking connection up to 25 kilowatts, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) Chairman Tausif H. Farooqi said on Saturday. Speaking to the media at the10th Solar Pakistan Exhibition at the Lahore Expo Centre, Mr Farooqi said that despite opposition,…
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Qatar’s foreign minister has said the conflict in Ukraine, and its geopolitical ramifications, is pushing some countries to explore new ways of pricing oil — not in the dollar. The comments, made Saturday by Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, come after a Wall Street Journal report that Saudi Arabia is in accelerated talks with China to accept yuan instead of dollars…
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Singapore-based Guvnor has decided not to honour its contract to deliver four LNG term cargoes to Pakistan, which would force the dollar-starved country to purchase costly LNG from the spot market to fulfill its energy needs. The cargoes were to be delivered in the remaining four months’ tenure of Guvnor’s five-year term agreement ending July 2022. “This is a gigantic…
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Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo, while defending a recently signed agreement on the Reko Diq copper and gold mining project with a Canadian company, has disclosed that a Saudi Arabian firm would set up a refinery in Gwadar to assess the quantity of minerals extracted from the site. “I have taken all political leaders, parties and public representatives into confidence…
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Experts have said that Thar’s residents are still forced to consume water from wells contaminated with toxic waste being discharged by coal mining companies, which is in serious violation of the Sindh Environment Protection Act. They said it in a webinar titled ‘Coal-induced Water Woes of Tharis’ held recently by the Alliance for Climate Justice & Clean Energy (ACJCE), a…
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