PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format 3 December, 2010, CHENNAI – The results of analyses of soil, sediment and ground water samples collected by Community Environmental Monitoring (CEM) “conclusively demonstrate that the Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd’s copper smelter complex in Tuticorin (SIIL) is endangering human health and the environment and contaminating water […]
PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format 3 December, 2010, CHENNAI The results of analyses of soil, sediment and ground water samples collected by Community Environmental Monitoring (CEM) “conclusively demonstrate that the Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd’s copper smelter complex in Tuticorin (SIIL) is endangering human health and the environment and […]
21 November 2010 A.V. Ragunathan The Hindu Capital dredging, redesigning of harbour among suggestions put forth ASSESSMENT: Probir Banerjee of the Pondicherry Citizens’ Action Network apprising environmentalists, social activists and fishermen on the problem of sea erosion on Saturday. CUDDALORE: A significant part of the coastal area at Chinnamudaliarchavadi in Villupuram […]
Nov. 16, 2010 Divya Trivedi Hindu Business Line HUL admits to breach of protocol at TN factory World Economic Forum. New Delhi: At the release of its global ‘Sustainable Living Plan’ programme at the World Economic Forum, Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) admitted that it had committed a grievous breach of protocol at its mercury […]
29 October 2010 R Vasundara TIMES OF INDIA Chennai: The Union environment and forests ministry has lifted the moratorium on new industrial projects in five critically-polluted industrial clusters in the country, including Coimbatore, Vapi (Gujarat), Patancheru-Bollaram (Andhra Pradesh), Tarapur (Maharashtra) and Mandi-Govindgarh (Punjab). The action followed the submission of action plans by the state pollution […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chennai 28 October 2010: The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has decided to continue its moratorium on setting up of new industries in the 3 out of 4 critically polluted industrial clusters of Tamil Nadu till March 2011. The areas where the moratorium would continue include industrial clusters in Cuddalore, Manali […]
Cuddalore 28 October 2010: Several illegal discharge of effluents from the SIPCOT units were reported by SACEM monitors on 23 October 2010. It is suspected that the units engaged in this activity to escape monitoring from the TNPCB as directed by the High Court of Madras. The first incident was reported at about 3 am […]