Mettur, 24 October, 2005: A team of three lawyers and recent law graduates visited Mettur on 22-23 October, 2005, to conduct a legal aid camp aimed at assisting victims of pollution in seeking legal redressal including compensation. More than 150 claims were registered from among the 400 or so villagers that attended the camp. The […]
Cuddalore, 21 October 2005: The District Collector of Cuddalore has written to the Factories Inspector on 18 October, 2005, urging the official to conduct surprise visits and inspections of safety conditions in the SIPCOT units and submit a report to his office at the earliest. This recommendation was issued by the Collectorate in response to […]
To: The District Environmental Engineer TNPCB, Cuddalore Copy: Mr. M. Nizamudeen, Member Cuddalore Local Area Environment Committee Chairman, Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes 3 October, 2005 Dear Sir: Please find the reports of pollution patrols conducted between 27-30 September, 2005 and coinciding with the dates of NEERIs second round of sampling in accordance […]
Cuddalore, 7 October 2005: A boiler explosion that killed on worker was reported from Victory Chemicals. According to the sources the explosion occurred late in the night of October 6, 2005. The worker was a resident of Pilliyarmedu, a village in SIPCOT. The local police and the factory inspector have visited the factory; a case […]
122 Patashala Street, Manali, Chennai Manali Air Not Fit to Breathe, Air Sample Reveals Press Release Download press release in Adobe pdf format for printing CHENNAI, 28 September, 2005 — Contrary to claims by Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board that pollution in Manali was within norms, an air sample taken by Chennai-based Community Environmental Monitoring and […]
122 Patashala Street, Manali, Chennai Manali Air Not Fit to Breathe, Air Sample Reveals Details of Sample and Sampling A Tedlar bag sample was taken on 25 July 2005 at 7:30 pm from opposite the Futura Polymers gate near the graveyard, Manali North Madras, downwind of the company. Wind direction was towards south west, though […]
Cuddalore, 25 September, 2005: Fisherfolk from Sonnanchavadi reported a massive fish kill in River Uppanar in the early hours of 24th September. According to witnesses, a lorry in all likelihood from the nearby SIPCOT industrial estate — discharged effluents into the river at around 4 a.m. The effluents were released through a hose pipe near […]