METTUR, 06.08.2011 About twenty people suffered from breathing difficulty, stomach swelling and burning of the eyes following a gas leak from Plant I of Chemplast Sanmar in Mettur R.S. on 06.08.2011 at 7.00 P.M. The gas leak which was seen as a white cloud of smoke lasted till 8.30 P.M. and the shops around the […]
4 August 2011 Special Correspondent The Hindu Workers, social activists and environmentalists have voiced concern over the safety of the idle storage of ammonium and chloroform in two tanks in the recently shut down SPIC Pharma unit located on the SIPCOT Industrial Estate here. The workers claim that the chemicals are flammable and would […]
28 JULY, 2011 Greenpark, Mettur – Villagers in the Thangamapuripatnam area reported a discharge of stong medicine smelling effluents in the stream alongiside the residential area in Greenpark at around 6 a.m. today. Residents alleged that an old pipeline belonging to Chemplast Sanmar runs in the vicinity of the pipeline, and that this may […]
29 july 2011 Special Correspondent The Hindu The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has issued a show-cause notice to the Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Ltd, located at Kayalpattu in Thiruchopuram near here, asking the company why penal action should not be taken against it for violating the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act and raising […]
25 JULY, 2011. SALEM — Twenty seven people from different parts of Mettur submitted complaints of pollution and damage to health and livelihood to the District Collector of Salem at the Grievance day meeting at the Collectorate. Residents from Ramamoorthy Nagar, a residential area behind Vedanta-owned Malco’s thermal power plant wrote to the Collector […]
21 July 2011 IBN Live New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) Coming down heavily on a Rajasthan-based polluting chemical industry, the Supreme Court has directed it to pay over Rs.37 crore with 12 per cent compound interest (approx Rs.202 crore), rapping the company for frustrating its order over the last 15 years by filing frivolous […]
20 July 2011 A.V.RAGUNATHAN The Hindu The 17-year-old SPIC Pharma unit, located at the SIPCOT Industrial Estate here, that has been a market leader in the penicillin products in India till recently, has been unceremoniously closed down, and all its 160 employees and officials have been retrenched. On Monday morning, the employees who turned […]