Thoothukudy, March 25, 2013: One worker, reportedly a 35-year old man from Bihar, succumbs to effects of gas exposure following a poisonous gas leak from front of the Sterlite Copper Smelter on 23rd March 2013. The body of the deceased hospital was kept in the mortuary of the government hospital even as SIPCOT Police […]
March 24, 2013 STAFF REPORTER New Indian Express A suspected leak of noxious gas from the Sterlite Industries plant in Thoothukudi caused nausea and skin irritation among a section of local residents here on Saturday. While Sterlite officials denied any chemical leakage from the factory, Thoothukudi Collector Ashish Kumar said a preliminary inquiry revealed that […]
March 24, 2013 STAFF REPORTER The Hindu Environment activists blame the Sterlite Copper Company for this incident TUTICORIN: Residents complained of asphyxiation following the alleged leakage of a noxious gas between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Saturday. Residents from Tuticorin town, New Colony, market area, Perumalpuram and SIPCOT area said they experienced sneezing. Environmental […]
March 24, 2013 Times of India TUTICORIN: Tension prevailed in Tuticorin city and surrounding villages as an unspecified gas allegedly leaked from some factories here, causing mild suffocation, sore throat and irritation to several people on Saturday morning. Around 6 am, some gas started spreading and the air was heavy with it till 8 […]
20 March 2013 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Hindu More than 20 students from six schools in Kodaikanal came to the city on Friday as a part of “Have a heart campaign” to deliver hand-written charts from their fellow students to key officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board. They were urging a thorough clean-up […]
16th March 2013 Deccan Chronicle Photo credit: Deccan Chronicle Chennai: As many as 25 school children along with activists from Kodaikanal are camping in Chennai demanding that the government take steps and excavate the soil polluted with mercury dumped in nearby forests by an MNC 12 years ago. The corporate company was started […]
Thoothukudi, 19th March, 2013 — One worker is reported to have died after falling into an empty Phosporic Acid Tank at Sterlite Industries’ copper smelter in Thoothukudi. Swaminathan, a contract worker with Inttec, was moved from his routine work in the Sulphuric Acid plant to the Phosporic Acid Plant, which was shut down at […]