PRESS RELEASE 5 May, 2007, GUMMIDIPOONDI Gummidipoondi MLA Mr. K.S. Vijaykumar addressed an All-party public meeting calling upon the Tamilnadu Government to give up plans to set up a toxic waste dumpsite and incinerator in S.R. Kandigai Panchayat. Mr. Vijaykumar has also raised the issue of the toxic facility at the recent assembly session. The […]
Cuddalore, 10 May 2007: Sangolikuppam residents blocked the Pioneer Miayagi gates on 9th May, Wednesday afternoon in protest after an incident of effluent leak from CUSECS 2 pipeline. The effluent leak took place at about 7 am on Wednesday when the CUSECS 2 pipeline joining the CUSECS 3 pipe broke near Pilukutthuvaikal in Sangolikuppam village. […]
4 May 2007 Staff Reporter The Hindu Waterway polluted by effluents from chemical units CHENNAI: Fish in the Uppanar near the SIPCOT industrial estate at Cuddalore are born with genetic deformity, according to a study conducted by student members of the People’s Union for Civil Liberty. G. Narasimhan, a PUCL student volunteer, who visited […]
CHENNAI, 2 May, 2007 — Japan exported nearly 2000 tons of trash, not including e-waste, to India in four years between 2003 and 2006. It was also among the largest exporters of toxic ships, having sent 70 ships in four years for breaking at the infamous shipbreaking yards of Alang. Chennai-based campaign group Corporate […]
Cuddalore, 29 April, 2007: A construction work carried on by the Highways Department damaged the CUSECS pipeline between CUSECS 2 and 3 causing effluent discharge into a local pond in SIPCOT Cuddalore. The incident occurred on 28 April around 6 pm when the highways department personnel were carrying repair work on ECR Cuddalore-Chidambaram highway near […]
Chennai Online Our Correspondent Chennai, April 24: A peoples’ welfare association has moved the Madras High Court for a direction to the authorities concerned to ensure that industries located at the SIPCOT chemical complex at Cuddalore maintained safe levels of air quality and toxic chemicals. When the petition filed by The People Legal Awareness […]
20 April 2007 Special Correspondent The Hindu Critics of project question the need for the proposed plant CHENNAI: The 1,320-megawatt coal-based thermal power project in Cuddalore was subjected to a critical scrutiny at a public hearing organised by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission in Chennai on Wednesday. Presided by the TNERC chairperson […]