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‘Green Oscar’ winner to promote biogas
Staff Reporter
Thiruvananthapuram: The Biotech Centre for Development of Biogas Technology and Other Non Conventional Energy Sources — an NGO that was recently awarded the Ashden Award — plans to organise road shows and awareness programmes in schools across the State to propagate the use of biogas.
This was stated at a press conference here on Tuesday by the firm’s director A. Sajidas who received the award also known as the ‘Green Oscar’ from the former US vice-president Albert Gore. The award carries a cash component of £30,000.
“We have set up biogas plants in 12,000 homes, 220 establishments and in 20 markets in the State. This, we estimate, has led to the prevention of the release of about 3,700 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air,”
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