April 18 2012 The Deccan Chronicle Over 4 lakh residents in Kodungaiyur are vulnerable to lung haemorrhage and pulmonary oedema (fluid accumulation in the air spaces of the lungs). The US environment protection agency, which tested the air samples at Kodungaiyur at the request of the residents, stated that 19 chemicals were identified in […]
April 17, 2012 Sanjay Pinto NDTV.com Chennai: If you live in the vicinity of Chennai’s largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system. What’s worse, the noxious fumes contain Butadiene, Chloromethane and Benzene, known to be […]
PRESS RELEASE Chennai, 16 April 2012: 19 chemicals were detected in the air breathed by Kodungaiyur residents during a fire in the dump yard that lasted more than two days. The findings were from an air sample taken on March 12, 2012, 50 metres downwind of the dump yard, by Community Environmental Monitoring and […]
April 14, 2012. Mettur – Since around midday on Friday the 13th, residents of Ramamurthy Nagar, Mettur, are suffering the effects of intense noise pollution from Malco’s coal thermal power plant. The noise is due to blasts of steam from the power plant, residents say. With exams going on and two schools in the vicinity, […]
PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format 6 April, 2012. CHENNAI Victims of Union Carbide from Bhopal urged the Tamil Nadu Government to act decisively to get Hindustan Unilever to clean up the contamination within and outside its thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, and rehabilitate affected people and workers. At a meeting yesterday with […]
April 7, 2012 Special Correspondent The Hindu Chennai Victims of the Union Carbide leak from Bhopal have urged the State government to get Hindustan Unilever to clean up the mercury contamination within and outside its thermometer factory in Kodaikanal and rehabilitate affected workers and people. After meeting Environment Minister B.V. Ramanaa, Bhopal survivors’ […]
29 March, 2012, Mettur Dead fish were spotted in the confluence of the Greenpark odai with the River Kaveri’s surplus course just below the now disused effluent discharge pipes of Chemplast Sanmar’s chemical plants on 27 March, 2012. Gonur West Agriculturists Development Union member Ganesan who detected stagnant foam with a chemical odour at the […]