31 March 2007 Special Correspondent The Hindu Ambient air ‘contains eight chemicals exceeding safety limits’ PUBLIC WORRY: Unchecked pollution in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate area in Cuddalore is causing concern to the residents. CUDDALORE: The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), which has been assigned the task of studying the pollution problem in the SIPCOT […]
Cuddalore, 28 March 2007: SIPCOT air remains heavily polluted endangering the health and lives of thousands of residents in the area, according to results of the latest air samples taken by SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitoring (SACEM). The two samples taken in February 2007 near the dispensary inside SIPCOT and at the entrance to Eachangadu […]
Cuddalore, 29 March 2007: A leak in the effluent pipeline from CUSECS II to CUSECS III was reported from SIPCOT Cuddalore today. the leak was reported from area behind Puthu Koil in Periya Karaikadu at about 10:30 am. Huge quantity of effluent smelling of rotten dead body was reported to heave leaked and spread on […]
Cuddalore, 23 March 2007: An industrial accident in Pioneer Miyagi left three workers at the unit injured today. According to the sources the workers were engaged in constructing the boiler unit when one of the chain pulley broke injuring the workers. Two workers sustained minor injuries and were hospitalised in a local private hospital while […]
PRESS RELEASE Chennai, 26 March 2007: A six-member expert panel has condemned the illegal dumping of garbage by the Chennai Corporation in Kodungaiyur, and has called for an immediate end to garbage burning and a phase out of garbage dumping in Kodungaiyur. The expert panel also urged the Corporation to abandon plans to set up […]
PRESS RELEASE Gummidipoondi, 21 March 2007 More than 500 residents, primarily women, from S.R. Kandigai panchayat in Gummidipoondi physically entered and stopped work at the project site of Tamil Nadu Waste Management Ltd (TNWML)’s hazardous waste landfill and incinerator. The construction was being carried out without permission from the local Government bodies and against the wishes […]
Thursday, March 22, 2007 Jaya Menon New Indian Express Chennai, March 21: Hundreds of residents of Gummidipoondi and surrounding villages today squatted on the site where work was to begin on a ‘land raise’ for dumping 35,000 tonnes of hazardous industrial wastes. The villagers were opposing the project’s location, about 500 metres from the nearest […]