Cuddalore, 13 August, 2007 — SIPCOT Area Community Environment Monitors reported an illegal discharge of toxic effluents in to the Eachangadu Vaikal (stream) today. The discharge was noticed at 3 a.m ., when the monitor who is also a fisherman entered the stream to go fishing. He said he experienced an immediate burning sensation of […]
Cuddalore, 1 August 2007: Another leak in the CUSECS pipeline from pump 2 to 3 was reported at about 2 pm yesterday from SIPCOT Cuddalore. The leak was reported from the pipeline 50 meters from the southern boundary near Ustad Biotech at Periyakaraikadu village. The effluents spread over 10 feet in the surrounding area; […]
Cuddalore, 12 July 2007: SPIC Pharmaceuticals released large quantities of effluents into an open drainage canal in Eachangadu village from the night of 10 July to the evening of 11 July 2007. According to local residents, the effluent was blackish yellow in colour, had a rotten cabbage and human excreta odour. SIPCOT Area Community […]
Cuddalore, 4 July 2007: A day after receiving several complaints of increased pollution in the SIPCOT area the District Environment Engineer (DEE) of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) conducted a joint pollution patrol with the SIPCOT villagers and SACEM monitors to assess the situation in the industrial complex. The team conducted a […]
1 July 2007 THE HINDU Special Correspondent CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has formed an experts’ committee to assess the health condition of former workers of Hindustan Lever’s Clinical Thermometer Factory at Kodaikanal allegedly exposed to toxic mercury. The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice K. Chandru, said the five-member committee would […]
Cuddalore, 7 June 2007: Fifty 200-litre drums containing a smelly liquid waste with an oily film from Bayer Sanmar’s polyurethane factory in SIPCOT, Cuddalore, was exposed by community residents in Kudikadu village yesterday. The Cuddalore District Consumer Protection Organisation registered a complaint with the Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). However, by the time the […]
Cuddalore, 17 May 2007: Pioneer Miyagi once again began to reclaim river Uppanar land exactly one month after it was forced to stop this activity by the District Collector and the officials of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). Pioneer began this land reclamation in violation of the Coastal Regulation Zone Management rules on 17 […]