Sipcot Area – Community Environmental Monitors

Press Release: Gas Trouble III: Regulatory loopholes in TNPCB’s toxic emissions monitoring in SIPCOT Cuddalore during 2019-2020

By sacemPosted on April 30, 2022April 30, 2022Posted in Press Release

Download Report here SIPCOT Cuddalore, 30.04.22: Exposing the fundamentally flawed emission monitoring design of TNPCB – At-least 19 out of 58 stacks being monitored by the pollution regulator for real-time air emissions had not even set up basic threshold limits, revealed an investigative RTI study carried out by Community Environmental Monitoring and SIPCOT area community […]

Two air quality monitoring units in Cuddalore remain dysfunctional

By sacemPosted on March 16, 2022Posted in Media Stories

They don’t show any data and have not been working for the past one year, says environmentalist Two Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS) set up in Cuddalore to record particulate matter, gaseous pollutants and analyse air quality in the region have been remaining dysfunctional for over a year. The real-time display monitors were […]

Illegal effluent storage inside Golden fish meal and fish oil company

By sacemPosted on January 3, 2022February 1, 2022Posted in Uncategorized

M/S. Golden Fish meal and Fish Oil company, Sipcot Cuddalore is a repeated violator of environmental lisences and had been polluting the environment. Public protests and complaints resulted in shutting down of the company for a few months. The company was restarted recently. It has illegally stored its effluent in a pond inside its premises […]

Fumes from Tagros, SIPCOT Cuddalore

By sacemPosted on October 14, 2021November 10, 2021Posted in Uncategorized

On 12th October 2021, around 7 45 pm, an intense white fumigation incident was reported to have occured at Tagros new plant. The plant was clouded by intense white fumes that gave chemical odour. It was drizzling during the incident and the increased humidity of air during that time has caused holding of pollutants and […]

Cuddalore environmentalists submit demands to NGT panel formed to inspect pesticide unit

By sacemPosted on July 18, 2021Posted in Media Stories

The tribunal’s Southern Bench had taken suo moto cognisance of a report in The Hindu over an accident in Crimsun Organics Private Limited on May 13, that resulted in the death of four persons The SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors (SACEM) has placed a list of demands in a memorandum submitted to the joint committee […]

Environmentalists cry foul over lack of threshold limits for 19 stack parameters in Cuddalore SIPCOT

By sacemPosted on July 7, 2021July 18, 2021Posted in Media Stories

When there is no threshold limit, critical pollutants may escape into the atmosphere impacting heavily on ambient pollution levels, and affect the health of vulnerable sections, an environmental activist said Environmentalists have complained that threshold limits have not been set up for 19 stack parameters for industries falling under the ‘Red’ category in the Cuddalore […]

CUSECS pipeline damaged by external force: Treated effluents leaked in SIPCOT

By sacemPosted on June 29, 2021June 30, 2021Posted in updates

On 28th June 2021, Cuddalore Sipcot Industries Common Utilities Limited (CUSECS) that provides Infrastructure Facilities for Common Marine Disposable System for industrial units in SIPCOT Cuddalore was damaged leading to leakage of treated industrial effluents on the ground much before reaching its destination at the deep sea dump site. The interconnecting pipeline of the CUSECS […]