Cuddalore, 18 August 2009: Three workers were injured due to electric shock inside SPIC on 14 August 2009. According to the sources the workers face, hands and other parts of the body turned black after the shock. All workers were admitted to private hospitals in the New Town. While two of them were admitted […]
Mettur, 14 August, 2009 – Giving the lie to Chemplast Sanmar’s claim of Zero Liquid discharge from its chemical facilities in Mettur, the company was caught red-handed last night while discharging highly toxic pollutants into the River Kaveri. Chemplast Sanmar operates four unlicensed chemical plants in Mettur. The four units do not have valid Consent […]
PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format Chennai, 28 July 2009: Fifteen women, including farmers from Mettur, demonstrated outside Chemplast Sanmar’s annual shareholders’ meeting holding on to pregnant-looking bellies to highlight that pollution from Chemplast’s factories in Mettur were harming future generations. The demonstrators distributed pamphlets and reports detailing the company’s […]
PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format Chennai, 27 July 2009: On the eve of Chemplast Sanmar’s Annual General Meeting in Chennai, Mettur farmers and a Chennai-based environmental justice organisation released a report detailing Chemplast’s social and environmental liabilities in Mettur targeting the company’s shareholders. The report titled “Chemplast Sanmar – Environmental & […]
Cuddalore 9 July 2009: SACEM monitors reported illegal discharge of effluents from Pioneer Jellice Ltd into the Kuttaikaran Koil Viakal (canal) leading to river Uppanar at about 6 am today. This discharge took place just half an hour after the CUSECS pipeline shut its operation due to a breakage near Eachangadu village earlier in the […]
Cuddalore 9 July 2009: Residents of Eachangadu village reported a breakage and leak in CUSECS pipeline at about 2.30 am today. This pipeline collects water from Pioneer Jellice, Arkema Peroxides, Bayer and Pandian Chemicals. This leak was detected by Shivaraman of Eachangadu village after he noticed a strong rotten dead body like chemical odour at […]
CUDDALORE, 29 June, 2009 – Two contract workers from Pachiyankuppam village in SIPCOT, D Kumar and S Selvakumar, got injured in a bromine spill in Tagros Chemicals at 11.30 a.m. today. Both suffered burns on their hands, legs and some other parts of their bodies during the spill. According to the sources the spill occurred […]