PRESS RELEASE S.R. Kandigai Women Self Help Groups B. R. Kandigai Village, S. R. Kandigai Panchayat, Gummidipoondi, Thiruvallur District —————————————————————————– Chennai, 9 March 2006: Six Women’s Self Help Groups from Gummidipoondi with a membership of more than 500 have launched a campaign against the proposed hazardous waste landfill and incinerator in their village. Addressing a […]
New Kerala 06 March 2006 Chennai: Demonstrations by more than 300 ex-workers of Hindustan Lever Ltd. (HLL) Monday in the holiday resort of Kodaikanal marked the fifth anniversary of their struggle for environmental clean-up and health rehabilitation against the multinational. The former workers demonstrated before the district authorities and pointed out that a recently-approved proposal […]
PRESS RELEASE Ponds Hindustan Lever Ltd Ex-Mercury Employees Welfare Association Thiraviyam Complex, Kamarajar Road, Moonjikal, Kodaikanal 1 March 5 2006, KODAIKANAL — More than 300 people demonstrated today to mark the 5th anniversary of the struggle for environmental clean-up and health rehabilitation against Hindustan Lever Ltd, whose mercury thermometer factory was exposed in 2001 […]
Cuddalore, 28 May 2006: SACEM conducted two pollution patrols – one in the early morning and the other in the afternoon of 28 May, 2006, a Sunday. In their afternoon patrol, they were accompanied by visitors from the US, New Delhi, Chattisgarh and Kolkata. A five-year old child, the daughter of Durga Jha of Chattisgarh-based […]
Cuddalore, 28 May 2006: 35 year old J. Kaliamurthy of Periya Karaikadu sustained a severe head injury and fractured both hands after falling from a height on the third floor of an unapproved construction within Pioneer Miyagi Chemicals. The mishap took place at 7:45 am on 28 May, 2006. Mr. Kaliamurthy’s friend rushed him to […]
Cuddalore, 20May 2006: A fire at the premises of the now-abandoned Coromandel Indag factory in SIPCOT, Cuddalore, spread thick white smoke and panic among local residents. Lakshmi (35), wife of Rajiv, reportedly fainted, upon which the villagers alerted the SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors. Lakshmi was admitted to Surendra Hospital. The breeze blowing from the […]
Cuddalore , 14 May 2006: A new pollution patrol conducted by the SACEM monitors has once again indicated that the industries in Cuddalore are openly dumping hazardous wastes in the air. The patrol conducted in the night between 8:15pm and 9:30 pm showed that the average odour level in the SIPCOT complex ranged from 3 […]