Cuddalore, 19 January 2010: SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors (SACEM) has welcomed the center’s decision for temporary restrictions on new industrial projects in Cuddalore and demanded that the community should be involved in all action plans for environmental remediation. In a letter to the State and Central Pollution Control Boards, SACEM has shared all its […]
16 January 2010 Special Correspondent The Hindu The Centre has imposed temporary restrictions on new development projects in industrial clusters that score more than 70 points on the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests recently. The restrictions on projects from critically polluted industrial clusters will be […]
PRESS RELEASE 5 January 2010 Responding to a Writ Petition filed in the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) challenging the environmental clearance and license to construct granted to Sterlite Industries’ for expanding its copper smelting capacity from the current 400,000 tpa to 800,000 tpa, the company was forced to commit an undertaking that it […]
PRESS RELEASE 7 January 2010 Responding to a Writ Petition filed in the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) challenging the environmental clearance and license to construct granted to Sterlite Industries’ for expanding its copper smelting capacity from the current 400,000 tpa to 800,000 tpa, the company was forced to commit an undertaking that it would […]
Cuddalore, 15 December 2009: Fishermen in SIPCOT area have reported another incident of fish kill in the river on 12 December, 2009. According to the fishermen, this fish kill was similar to the one reported on 18 and 19th of last month and even was around the same location as the previous one. There was […]
Mettur, 29 November 2009: On 25 November 2009, K.M.Ardhanari from Panangkadu Pudhu Colony, presented a formal complaint to the Gonur West Agriculturist’s Development Union that 200 coconut saplings planted by him in his field had dried and died owing to effluents from Chemplast Sanmar contaminating his land. K.M.Ardhanari from Panangkadu Pudhu Colony, P.N.Patti Panchayat, […]
Cuddalore, 19 November 2009: Fishermen in Uppanar reported a fish kill near Kudikadu-Uppanar Vaikal (canal) at about 6 am in the morning. Dead fish found were of several variety like Madavai, Sethakendai, Keluthi, Yeral (prawn), Nandu (crab), Ulluvali, Kezhangan. Except for Madavi rest all varieties are of bottom dwelling fish. Fishermen also reported the water […]