July 17, 2011 Sangeeth Sebastian India Today New Delhi: State governments furnished misleading information on critically polluted industrial areas to let the regions off an environment ministry moratorium list, an investigation by the Centre for Science and environment (CSE) has revealed. The environmental group, which evaluated the pollution status in the industrial hubs of […]
15 July 2011 S. PRASAD Deccan Chronicle Villagers, NGOs and social action groups held a major protest against a private firms move to build a shipbuilding yard in Silambimangalam near Parangipettai at a public hearing organised by the Tamil Nadu pollution control board on Thursday. A few kilometers away, hundreds of fishermen from nearly […]
July 15, 2011 Special Correspondent The Hindu A public hearing held at Velingirayanpettai near here on Thursday on the proposed Rs 500-crore private ship building yard project was “a fiasco and meant to hoodwink the people on its utility and purpose,” according to K.Balakrishnan, CPI (M) MLA of Chidambaram constituency. Lashing out at the […]
4 July 2011 Indian Express News CHENNAI: The 10-year struggle and miseries faced by factory workers and their families, exposed to mercury in the Hindustan Unilever thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, was poignantly depicted in the documentary Mercury in the Mist. As the 16-minute film delved on the lives of the workers and the poisoned […]
9 July 2011 Special Correspondent The Hindu A major fire broke out on the premises of the Thermal Station at Mettur on Friday night. No loss of life, however, was reported. Police sources claimed that the fire was noticed in a godown where construction materials were kept since the expansion works of the […]
5 July 2011 Special Correspondent The Hindu The SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitoring (an outfit comprising local residents) and the Consumer Federation of Tamil Nadu have appealed to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to order a comprehensive cancer screening camp in the villages surrounding the SIPCOT Industrial Estate here. The Cuddalore district administration along with the […]
Zero Discharge; Zero Truth — Chemplast Sanmar’s Illegal Discharge into River Kaveri Zero Discharge; Zero Truth Chemplast’s Illegal Discharges into the Kaveri June 2011 Chemplast Zero Discharge Results of Analyses May 2011 Chemplast Interpretation ROA quality data 3 June 2011 Chemplast Interpretation of 4 May 2011 water sample Critique of the Chemplast Sanmar Limited Health Study Conducted by […]