17 September, 2014 Press Release CHENNAI -The Corporation’s Rs. 55 crore beach beautification plan has run afoul of the Chennai fisherfolk who said the project eats into their livelihood spaces and violates the CRZ Notification. The fisherfolk made it clear that no further diversion of beach spaces used for livelihood would be permitted until a comprehensive Coastal […]
Cuddalore, 27 August 2014: More than 300 residents from villages around proposed SIMA textile park site in Cuddalore surrounded the project site and opposed preliminary work at the site. SIMA residents were performing a religious ceremony to construct the marine effluent pipeline on the site. Villagers stopped the officials from continuing with the activities citing […]
Aug 31, 2014 Rahul Bhandari The News Himachal The HP State Pollution Control Board has disconnected power supplies of eight erring industrial units in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) industrial area of Solan District. Pollution Board has received series of complaints from the locals and acting on them, Board has conducted inspections in the BBN area and […]
July 26, 2014 The Hindu Two workers from Bihar died after they fell off the chimney of a private power company at Karikuppam near Parangipettai on Saturday. Another worker, also from Bihar, suffered multiple fractures. Sources said that when the workers were carrying a pipe on a makeshift lift to the top of […]
July 26, 2014 Press Trust of India Two migrant labourers from Bihar were killed today and four others severely injured after they fell from the chimney of an underconstruction private thermal power station at a village near here, police said. More than 400 workers from Bihar and other north Indian states were engaged […]
July 26, 2014 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Hindu CHENNAI: The city will host a meeting on Saturday to discuss the impact of coal on the environment and the health hazards the fuel poses. To launch a debate, Coal Health Initiative will bring together a group of healthcare professionals and specialists in various diseases. […]
PRESS RELEASE Chennai, 26 July 2014: Public health experts and medical specialists met today to make visible the health costs of India’s pursuit of coal as the energy option of choice. The Roundtable held in Chennai on the theme of “Climate Change and Health Impacts of Energy Choices – Coal” was organized by Coal […]