Chemical company workers to observe fast
CUDDALORE, July 28 2008: More than 300 workers of Pioneer Miyagi Chemicals Ltd, SIPCOT Industrial Estate, Semmankuppam, near here, who are now resorting to an indefinite strike from July 12, have threatened to observe a fast on Tuesday. Read Media Story...

Mercury Menace
Kodaikanal, July 19 2008 S Sivaganam, R Vijayalakshmi, Peter Sunderajan, Christopher Coldcraft, Panneer Selvaram, J Sudhakaran, Neelavanan, Ramachandran, P Natrajan, S Palniswamy, Ganna Sundri, G Ruthpriya, C Carmel, Margaret, E Ramesh Selvapandiyan... They are not just residents of Kodaikanal. Read Media Story...

Salem District Residents Use RTI to Demand Transparency of TNPCB
Salem, 15 July 2008: – Around 50 people, agitated by the lack of transparency and large-scale irregularities in the functioning of the Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board, today filed RTI applications at the District Environmental Engineer's office. Read More...

Accident at the Chemplast Site in Cuddalore; One Worker Dead Another Seriously Injured
Cuddalore, 15 July 2008: One contract worker lost his life while another was seriously injured in an accident while the construction of the PVC plant of Chemplast Sanmar in Cuddalore. Read More...

Contract workers in Pioneer Go on an Indefinite Strike
Cuddalore, 15 July 2008: Contract workers of Pioneer Jelice India Pvt. Ltd have gone on an indefinite strike demanding better working conditions, salary and a permanent end of Company's activity of illegal discharge of untreated effluents. Read More...

CUSECS Pipe Breaks Again; Village Canal Contaminated
Cuddalore, 7 July 2008: CUSECS Pipe line from CUSECS II to CUSECS VI was reported to be damaged on 4 July 2008 at about 6 pm. Read More...

Pioneer's New Plant Spews Out Toxic Smoke Regularly; No Action Taken by TNPCB
Cuddalore, 6 July 2008: Residents of Semmankuppam village have constantly complained of thick white smoke from the new unit of Pioneer Jelice Ltd. Read More...

Air Emissions in Cuddalore Continue to be Critical; SPIC the latest offender
Cuddalore, 5 July 2008: SACEM monitors have continuously reported about the deteriorating air quality in and around SIPCOT Cuddalore. Read More...

3 industrial projects launched
CHENNAI, 3 July 2008:
A petroleum refinery plant, a port, a ship building yard coming up near Cuddalore. Read Media Story...

Tantech Spews Odourous Emissions Again
Cuddalore, 1 July 2008: Residents of Eachangadu have once again complained about noxious odourous emissions from Tantech Agro Chemicals that chokes their village regularly. Read More...

Poison in the air

ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR
in Cuddalore
Frontline
The Hindu
04 June, 2005

Poisonous gases released into the air by some chemical units in the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods of people in a number of villages in the absence of government action.

At the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore. Gases released by chemical units have severely affected the air quality in the area.

VILLAGES in the industrial area on the outskirts of Cuddalore town in Tamil Nadu are increasingly being identified more by pungent smells than their names - smells of rotten cabbage, burnt rubber, rotten egg, neem, detergent, human excreta, decomposing bodies, mosquito coils, rotting bones, decaying chikoo fruit, and nail polish. The smells come from toxic chemical compounds that are manufactured or released as effluents by the 18 companies in the industrial area and which have been damaging the environment and the health of more than 20,000 people in about 20 villages. Read more...