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Diesel
Dead end for diesel buses
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2002
familiar scenes were witnessed in the recent courtroom drama on Delhi's polluting transport fleet, with key roles being enacted by the usual dramatis personae . But it ended on a different note. In a fitting finale, the Supreme Court (sc) brought the curtain down on the capital's diesel buses.
Environmentally unsound
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2002
"WE are aware of the sad plight of most of our towns and cities. This needs to be changed if they have to act as engines of growth, and if they are to provide a healthy environment for our citizens. Hence, we can no longer afford to delay reforms in this sector."
SC not to budge on CNG issue
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2002
"THIS is the fifth time that the Union and state governments have come back to this court with the prayer that diesel buses be allowed. If this were a private party (instead of being the government), it would amount to abuse of process and the party would be made to pay the cost." It was on this note that amicus curiae Harish Salve began the proceedings in the Supreme Court (SC) during a recent hearing in the M C Mehta case on air pollution in Delhi.
Picturesque no more?
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2002
IN TERMS of its rapidly deteriorating air quality, Kashmir is fast catching up with Delhi. A recent study conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control Board (PCB) has brought to light the startling fact that vehicular pollution has reached alarming proportions in the valley. Experts fear that if the issue is not addressed post-haste, the situation may get out of hand.
gensets under check
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2002
The Central Pollution Control Board recently informed the Delhi High Court that draft emission norms for 800 KVA diesel gensets had been finalised and the Ministry of Environment and Forests was studying them.
Earlier, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) had alleged that 49 per cent pollution was caused by generators which were harmful to public health.
GENSET EMISSION
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2002
The Delhi High Court has asked the Union government to notify the emission standards for 800 kilowatt (kw) diesel gensets within four weeks starting from December 10, 2001. Acting on a petition, the division bench directed the ministry of environment and forests to fix the emission standards as Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had already sent a draft notification in this regard to the ministry.
ULSD dearer
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2001
a recent spurt has been witnessed in the demand for ultra low sulphur diesel (ulsd), with several European countries switching over to the green fuel (containing 50 parts per million of sulphur). The resultant shortage has pushed up ulsd prices on the Rotterdam (Netherlands) barge market by us $20 a tonne.
HONG KONG
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2001
Although with the switchover of minibuses from diesel to lpg , the Hong Kong government would be sacrificing up to us $100 million diesel duty a year, environmentalists say the loss was worth bearing to clean Hong Kong's deteriorating air quality.
Phase-out postponed
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2001
Private operators have bulldozed the Delhi government into indefinitely deferring the phase-out schedule for diesel buses. As against a target of 2788 buses, only 727 have gone off the roads in December 2001.
Energised by vegetables
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2001
recently, a group of Kolkata-based taxi drivers did something quite unusual. They decided to tamper with the fuel in their taxis. They mixed 20 litres of diesel with one litre of mustard oil and ran their taxis on it. For them the doping made perfect economic sense. By default, researchers discovered that it reduced carbon monoxide (co) and sulphur dioxide (so2) emissions by as much as 85 per cent.
