After the Environment Ministry and the Central Pollution Control Board on November 15 brought into 'immediate effect a prohibition on the use of pet coke and furnace oil by any industry, operation or processes within the states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan until further orders, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has asked state-owned oil firms to increase supply of natural gas and alternative fuels to states where the use of polluting petroleum coke and furnace oil has been banned.
The minister reviewed the use of the two so-called dirty fuels with officials of the ministries of environment, heavy industries and coal. He said that use of petcoke should be regulated for non-polluting purposes and added that India imports about half of its annual consumption of 27 million tonnes of petcoke.
Demand for petcoke has doubled in the past four years and India consumed 14 million tonnes (MT) of pet coke during April-October 2017, marginally lower than 14.9 MT used in same period of last fiscal. Of the fuel consumed, only 8 MT was produced locally and the rest was imported.
A ban on pet coke and furnace oil in Delhi has been in effect since 1996, while recently the Supreme Court banned its sale and use in the national capital region, which comprises Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad.
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