Taking a stand that the energy transition to cleaner sources is underway, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that fossil fuels will not have acceptability forever. Fossil fuels will be a bad word in the decades to come. There is a growing shift towards the clean energy ecosystem. India must look at this for being a global leader, Pradhan said while speaking at a ceremony to mark launch of compressed biogas projects. He asked oil and gas companies to take a lead in these initiatives, suggesting they focus more on using farm waste to energy projects. During the event, public sector undertaking (PSU) companies, IndianOil, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum, Indraprastha Gas, and GAIL (India) signed an agreement to boost the viability of compressed biogas projects in the country. Under the agreement, these PSU companies decided to buy compressed biogas (CBG) made from projects that were supported by the signing parties.
The Shiv Sena on Saturday held Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) responsible for the death of several personnel of the barge that sank off the Mumbai coast when cyclone Tauktae brushed past the city earlier this week, and sought to know if Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan would resign owning the moral responsibility of the tragedy. In an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana , the party said the deaths were not caused due to a natural disaster, but it was a case of culpable homicide as ONGC did not take the cyclone warnings seriously. Barge P-305, which housed personnel engaged in maintenance work of an offshore oil drilling platform of state-run oil and gas major ONGC, sank on Monday evening during the cyclone. The official death toll in the tragedy has reached 60.
ONGC s negligence led to barge tragedy, says Sena; asks if Oil minister would resign
Sena said the deaths were not caused due to a natural disaster, but it was a case of culpable homicide as ONGC did not take the cyclone warnings seriously.
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MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Saturday held Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) responsible for the death of several personnel of the barge that sank off the Mumbai coast when cyclone Tauktae brushed past the city earlier this week, and sought to know if Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan would resign owning the moral responsibility of the tragedy.
Congress seeks Dharmendra Pradhan s resignation over the death of 37 personnel on board the P305 barge
Mumbai:
The Maharashtra Congress on Thursday demanded the resignation of Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on moral grounds over the death of 37 personnel on board a barge that sank in the Arabian Sea, and termed it as a manmade tragedy .
The Navy on Thursday morning launched a fresh aerial search and rescue mission, deploying helicopters to scour the waters off Mumbai coast, where the accommodation barge P305 went adrift in Cyclone Tauktae fury before it sank on Monday.
As many as 37 personnel on board the barge are dead and 38 still missing.