The Sindh government has decided to provide free-of-charge land to the firms that will install plants to use the municipal waste of Karachi to generate clean electricity. This decision was taken on Wednesday during a meeting that was held to finalise the policy to install waste-to-energy plants in the city. It was jointly chaired by Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh…
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A team of researchers at the University of Oslo has found evidence that shows Earth’s heat loss is more pronounced on one side of the planet than the other. In their paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the group describes creating models that represent Earth’s heat loss over the past 400 million years and what they showed. Prior research…
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ISLAMABAD: China on Thursday announced a gift of 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine for Pakistan. “China would provide 500,000 doses of vaccine by Jan 31,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said after a telephone conversation with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. He said the first consignment of vaccines was being given as a “grant assistance” and goodwill gesture by China.…
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This comes after President Joe Biden cancelled a March oil lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 80 million acres of available leases would have been sold this week. The damage to Louisiana’s oil and gas companies started in January when President Biden signed an executive order banning all new oil and gas leases on public land and waters…
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Joe Biden had a neat, nine-point plan for energy when he campaigned for president. He started putting this plan into action on his first day in the White House with the cancellation of the notorious Keystone XL pipeline and has since then continued with his tough stance on fossil fuels. The argument that this tough stance will, in fact, benefit…
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HYDERABAD: The contract employees of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) on Thursday staged a protest demonstration for regularization of services. HESCO employees led by Ali Gohar Chana, Shahid Jokhio, Shahid Jokhio, Zafar Jatoi and others took out rally opposite Hyderabad Press club for acceptance of their demand to regularize services as according to them, contract employees of Sukkur Electric Power…
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KARACHI: K-Electric is fully committed and engaged with industry stakeholders to ensure fresh electricity connections as well as load-enhancement for its industrial consumers. The power utility has prioritized its industrial customers and continues to do so following the recent decision of the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) to discontinue gas supply to captive power plants of non-export related industries. It…
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ISLAMABAD: An inquiry committee of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has identified governance, ownership problems and poor chain of command for countrywide power breakdown early this year, but has absolved its own team of any responsibility. In its report, the four-member inquiry committee also quoted letters written by some of its members for improvement of the electricity generation system…
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SLAMABAD:The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) is likely to approve the withholding of billions of rupees worth of payments to the independent power producers (IPPs) following an investigation launched by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The Inquiry Committee on Power has said that the IPPs had received excess payment of Rs1,000 billion. However, rather than demanding the return of payments, the…
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Despite the passage of three months, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs has failed to appoint a regular chairman of the Karachi Port Trust (KPT). With its failure to make the appointment, the ministry has once again sought an extension in the additional charge of KPT chairman given to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs secretary. The cabinet is scheduled to discuss…
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