Mettur, 30 January, 2008 A contract worker Prithviraj, age 25 yrs, died on the way to the hospital after being severely injured in an accident during the construction of the thermal power plant in Chemplast Sanmar, Mettur. The accident took place on 28 January 2008 at about noon. According to the reports another worker has […]
4 Feb 2008 The Hindu, Sarah Hiddleston CHENNAI: Fetid smell, toxic fumes and plagues of mosquitoes continue to bother residents around Kodungaiyur dump yard. Eight years on from the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules 2000, the facility breaks every rule therein. Despite repeated announcements by successive governments and budget allocations to […]
4 Feb 2008 The Hindu, Sarah Hiddleston CHENNAI: Anyone walking the lunar landscape behind the well-constructed but incomplete wall could testify to the near medieval methods of waste disposal practised at the Kodungaiyur dump yard. Vegetable scraps mix with plastic bottles, batteries and old tyres. Hospital refuse including needles, syringes, used bandages, gloves, rejected […]
Cuddalore, 29 January 2008: Residents of Semmankuppam village yesterday caught Pioneer Miyagi discharging effluents into the river Uppanar once again. According to the information the Semmankuppam president Mr. Ramalingam, vice president Mr. Armugham and about ten other villagers noticed effluent seeping from the northern wall of Pioneer compound on 27 January around midnight. The […]
“Even if I am not around, I would want the message of environmental pollution to reach as many people as possible” Gurubalan (1986-2006) In November 2006, a collective of youth from Chennai embarked upon a cycle rally from Cuddalore to Chennai to observe the 22nd Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. The rally […]
Cuddalore, 24 January 2008: The Cuddalore police released the seized truck containing suspected chemical waste at about 11.30 pm last night without any proper verification. Yesterday TNPCB and the District Administration had taken samples of the chemicals to verify the claims of the company that it was aldehyde, a raw material for their Pondicherry […]
Cuddalore, 23 January 2008: Alert SACEM monitors today intercepted a truck (No TN 41 Q 3772) loaded with more than 50 drums of chemicals at the busy main road of Cuddalore new town at about 6.00 pm. The monitors suspected that the chemicals carried in the truck were hazardous wastes as the drums were […]