Resource Guide

1. Tools for Community Environmental and Health Monitoring
   

Powerpoint Presentations:

1. Summary of State Action Plan on Climate Change
2. Agriculture and allied sectors
3. Coastal Zone Management
4. Energy and Renewable Energy
5. Forest and Biodiversity
6. Sustainable Habitats
7. Strategic Knowledge Managements
8. Water Resources
9. All presentations

 

• Understanding Land Acquisition
• National Green Tribunal Act, 2010
  • English
  • Tamil

Air sampling techniques:

• Introduction to Wipe Sampling

Chemical odours

• Odors: Fish Drying and Fishy Smells
• Odors from mycelium sludge waste and bone meal manufacturing
• Odor Threshold Concentration
• Odor Perception Thresholds Versus Danger Levels of Airborne Gases and Particulate Matter.
• Odor pollution in the environment and detection instrumentation
• Odor analysis of emissions for a chemical fiber unit

Material for Fact Finding on Impacts on Environment and Worker’s Health from the HLL Mercury Thermometer Factory in Kodaikanal

• Background
  • Chronology of Events Leading to Dilution of Standards (Word doc)
    May 2011
  • Poisoned ground
    Frontline Magazine – Sept. 2010
  • IPT Report on Mercury Thermometer Factory at Kodaikanal
    June 2003
  • Watertown, NY Reduced Mercury Discharges Info
    1970
• Info on Hg
  • The Three Modern Faces of Mercury
    Thomas W. Clarkson, Feb. 2002
  • The Toxicology of Mercury — Current Exposures and Clinical Manifestations
    The New England Journal of Medicine, 2003
  • Mercury exposure in children: a review
    Science Direct, 2004
  • Cutaneous Melanoma in Swedish Women: Occupational Risks by Anatomic Site
    American Journal Of Industrial Medicine 2005
  • Global Mercury Assessment (Word doc)
    United Nations Environment Programme, Nov. 2005
  • Exposure To Mercury: A Major Public Health Concern
    World Health Organization
  • Elemental Mercury And Inorganic Mercury Compounds: Human Health Aspects (htm page)
    World Health Organization 2003
  • Environmental Health Criteria 118 – Inorganic Mercury (htm page)
    International Programme On Chemical Safety – World Health Orgnization 1991
• Status of Hg in Factory
  • Mercury Balance: Account of the lost Mercury in Kodaikanal (PowerPoint presentation)
    K Gopalafrishnan, Former Staff, HLL
  • URS Site Description Information HLL Factory
  • NEERI 2007 Mercury Cleanup Protocol files (tar gz file) 11MB
• Studies of Hg in Factory and Outside
  • Study of mercury pollution near a thermometer factory using lichens and mosses
    Science Direct – January 2003
  • Double Standards: Unilever’s Mercury Fever & Kodaikanal’s Ecological Time Bomb
    Tamilnadu Alliance Against Mercury (TAAM) March 7, 2010
  • Atmospheric dispersal of mercury from the Hindustan Lever Limited thermometer factory, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India, using lichen as a biomonitor
    Greenpeace Research Laboratories Nov. 2003
  • Studies of mercury pollution in a lake due to a thermometer factory situated in a tourist resort: Kodaikkanal, India
    Science Direct – January 2005

Pollution:

• Proposed Municipal Solid Waste Processing Plant in Kodungaiyur – A solution or another problem? A Fact sheet, Adobe pdf file
• Factsheet on the Proposed 1400 TPD Municipal Solid Waste Processing Plant in Perungudi, 2010
• SCHEDULE 1 (Rule 3)
• India: Standards for Effluent Discharge
• India: Industry-specific emission standards
• Chemplast Factsheet Adobe pdf format
• Air Pollution Manual
• Annotated Bibliography of published studies linking Chlorine input and dioxin formation in combustion processes
• Breathing Fire: New Refinery Flaring Report Targets Environmental Injustice Global Community Monitor report February, 2005
• Common Hazardous Waste Dumpsite and Incinerator at SIPCOT Industrial Complex, Gummidipoondi
• Birds of Prey; Conoco, Condea Vista and PPG Feeding off of Mossville and Calcasieu Parish
• Landfills: Assessment of Risks. Environment Agency, UK. May 2004 Adobe pdf file
  Adobe pdf file
• Dioxins, PCBs in Human Tissue, Fish, Meat, and Wildlife from India
  Adobe pdf file
• Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Lay-person’s Guide Adobe pdf file

Pollution and health:

• Health Effects of Chemicals – More Information
• Air Quality Factsheet
• Perchlorate Chemistry, Use, and Health Effects Fact Sheet
• Pandian Chemicals: What the Government Won’t Tell You
• Some Chemicals Found in SIPCOT Air, Their Levels & Health Effects
• Lay, Community and Worker ‘Epidemiology’ – An Integrating Strand in Participatory Research (Waterson Health Survey)
• PVC — The Poison Plastic: Useful links
• Protect your land and sea from Chemplast Sanmar’s poison PVC plant -Factsheet Adobe pdf file
• Dioxon & Health: A Review of Dioxin’s Effects for Doctors Adobe pdf file

Posters:

• Various Say No to Chemplast’s PVC Plant posters.

SCMC/ LAEC Reports and updates:

• Local Area Environment Committee (LAEC) – Cuddalore Interim Report July, 2005 (Adobe pdf format)
• Letter from Adv. T. Mohan, Chairman of the Cuddalore Local Area Environment Committee to Chairperson, Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board 25 April, 2005
• Groundtruths: Status of Hazardous Wastes and Pollution in SIPCOT Chemical Estate, Cuddalore 31 January, 2005.
• Supreme Court Monitoring Committee Constitutes Cuddalore Local Area Environment Committee 24 January, 2005
• Second SCMC Report with Affidavit 14 October, 2004
• Report of the Visit of the SCMC to Tamilnadu September 20-22, 2004
• The Indian People’s Tribunal Report;
  On Human Rights Violations, Industrial Pollution and the Implications of the Proposed Chemplast Sanmar PVC Factory in SIPCOT, Cuddalore, T.N. June, 2003 (Adobe pdf format)
  Download report from http://www.laectn.indiaa.com/

Source: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).