To: The District Environmental Engineer TNPCB, Cuddalore Copy: Mr. M. Nizamudeen, Member Cuddalore Local Area Environment Committee Chairman, Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes 3 October, 2005 Dear Sir: Please find the reports of pollution patrols conducted between 27-30 September, 2005 and coinciding with the dates of NEERIs second round of sampling in accordance […]
Cuddalore, 7 October 2005: A boiler explosion that killed on worker was reported from Victory Chemicals. According to the sources the explosion occurred late in the night of October 6, 2005. The worker was a resident of Pilliyarmedu, a village in SIPCOT. The local police and the factory inspector have visited the factory; a case […]
122 Patashala Street, Manali, Chennai Manali Air Not Fit to Breathe, Air Sample Reveals Press Release Download press release in Adobe pdf format for printing CHENNAI, 28 September, 2005 — Contrary to claims by Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board that pollution in Manali was within norms, an air sample taken by Chennai-based Community Environmental Monitoring and […]
122 Patashala Street, Manali, Chennai Manali Air Not Fit to Breathe, Air Sample Reveals Details of Sample and Sampling A Tedlar bag sample was taken on 25 July 2005 at 7:30 pm from opposite the Futura Polymers gate near the graveyard, Manali North Madras, downwind of the company. Wind direction was towards south west, though […]
Cuddalore, 25 September, 2005: Fisherfolk from Sonnanchavadi reported a massive fish kill in River Uppanar in the early hours of 24th September. According to witnesses, a lorry in all likelihood from the nearby SIPCOT industrial estate — discharged effluents into the river at around 4 a.m. The effluents were released through a hose pipe near […]
23/09/05 OneWorld South Asia Salem: Just as 20 pollution-impacted villagers from Mettur and Cuddalore were to launch their 8-day march from Salem, Tamilnadu, on 5 September 2005, police landed up at the venue of the launch with a letter from the Deputy Commissioner of Police revoking the permission granted for launching their walk in Salem. […]
9/6/2005 The Peninsula- Qatar Chennai: About 500 villagers and activists in Tamil Nadu yesterday began a 300 km walk rallying people in support of a call to prevent the setting up of a plastics factory that they say will cause pollution and ill health. The activists of the eight-day walk from the Mettur region to […]