Cuddalore, 23 January 2008: Residents of Eachangadu today complained that their village was covered with the cloud of noxious smoke from Tantech from 5.30 am to 8.30 am. Residents including school children complained of eye and throat irritation, nausea and headache due to the smoke. They brought this matter to the notice of the […]
Cuddalore, 24 January 2008: Community Health Monitoring (CHM) conducted its first health camp on the issues of reproductive diseases among women in Eachangadu village today. The health camp was conducted from 9 am to 12.30 pm and was attended by about 60 women. This is the first effort of CHM to organise health camps in […]
Tuesday, January 22 2008 Express News Service CUDDALORE: A large quantity of fish were found dead in a river here on Monday. Local residents alleged the indiscriminate release of waste from a private sugarmill as a primary reason for the incident. Foul smell has been emanating from the place. The sugarmill had reportedly […]
23 January 2008 A.V.Ragunathan The Hindu, Indiscriminate garbage dumping along the Uppanar blamed CUDDALORE: The mangrove forests being raised along the Uppanar at Thevanampattinam here are facing the threat of extinction owing to an indiscriminate dumping of garbage and animal waste. The mangroves act as a bioshield during cyclone and tsunami. Pichavaram […]
Cuddalore, 14 January 2008 – In an another incident, the SACEM monitors reported Victory Chemical’s hazardous waste strewn around outside its premises. The waste was in the form of bricks that were thrown on the land outside the factory unit. SACEM monitors discovered the waste during their pollution patrol in the afternoon and immediately […]
Cuddalore, 14 January 2008 – SACEM monitors found the CUSECS II sump near the 5th cross road of SIPCOT complex flooded with effluents during a routine pollution patrol today afternoon. According to the monitors the sump was flooded due a leak in the valves. There was also a threat that the effluents would have […]
PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format 4 January, 2008.CHENNAI — At least 26 toxic volatile organic chemicals and sulphur gases including carcinogenic benzene and bromomethane were found in an air sample taken in Manali several hours after the gas leak of December 4-5, 2007. Of the 26 chemicals, the 11 […]