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India may extend power projects’ emission deadline to December 2019
Source: Mint, Date: , 2017
Mint, New Delhi, Feb 2017: The environment ministry is likely to defer
the implementation of the stringent emission norms that may have resulted in
higher electricity tariffs, by two years to December 2019, in a move that would
bring succour to nearly two-thirds of India’s power projects. The ministry of
environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has decided to amend the
Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, with the Environment (Protection)
Amendment Rules, 2015, wherein the deadline to meet the strict norms for
emissions of particulate matter (PM), sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury
and reduced water usage by coal-fuelled thermal power plants was fixed as
December 2017. In India, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after the US
and China, 61% of the installed power generation capacity of 3,10,005 MW is
fuelled by coal.
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