19 May 2007 The Hindu Special Correspondent Chairman denies people were affected Activists want long term medical monitoring Photo: Paul Noronha HEAR US OUT: Children from Kodaikanal suffering from mercury-related illnesses protesting in Mumbai on Friday against HLL for dumping several tonnes of mercury-contaminated wastes from its thermometer plant in Kodaikanal. MUMBAI: Scores […]
19 May 2007 Special Correspondent The Hindu Chairman denies people were affected Activists want long term medical monitoring Photo: Paul Noronha HEAR US OUT: Children from Kodaikanal suffering from mercury-related illnesses protesting in Mumbai on Friday against HLL for dumping several tonnes of mercury-contaminated wastes from its thermometer plant in Kodaikanal. MUMBAI: Scores […]
Mercury Affected Children From Kodaikanal Urge HLL Shareholders to Demand Responsibility Along with Profits from the Company Mumbai, 17 May 2007 : Ex Workers and their children from the Hindustan Lever (HLL) mercury thermometer factory in Kodaikanal today addressed a press conference urging the shareholders of HLL to raise the issues of mercury contamination and […]
Mumbai, 18 May 2007: Ex Workers and their children from the Hindustan Lever (HLL) mercury thermometer factory in Kodaikanal along with their supporters in Mumbai today protested outside the venue of the Annual General Meting (AGM) of HLL demanding accountability form the company. Eleven ex-workers exposed to toxic mercury (representing about 500 affected workers) […]
PRESS RELEASE 5 May, 2007, GUMMIDIPOONDI Gummidipoondi MLA Mr. K.S. Vijaykumar addressed an All-party public meeting calling upon the Tamilnadu Government to give up plans to set up a toxic waste dumpsite and incinerator in S.R. Kandigai Panchayat. Mr. Vijaykumar has also raised the issue of the toxic facility at the recent assembly session. The […]
Cuddalore, 10 May 2007: Sangolikuppam residents blocked the Pioneer Miayagi gates on 9th May, Wednesday afternoon in protest after an incident of effluent leak from CUSECS 2 pipeline. The effluent leak took place at about 7 am on Wednesday when the CUSECS 2 pipeline joining the CUSECS 3 pipe broke near Pilukutthuvaikal in Sangolikuppam village. […]
4 May 2007 Staff Reporter The Hindu Waterway polluted by effluents from chemical units CHENNAI: Fish in the Uppanar near the SIPCOT industrial estate at Cuddalore are born with genetic deformity, according to a study conducted by student members of the People’s Union for Civil Liberty. G. Narasimhan, a PUCL student volunteer, who visited […]