ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR in Cuddalore Frontline The Hindu 04 June, 2005 Poisonous gases released into the air by some chemical units in the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods of people in a number of villages in the absence of government action. At the SIPCOT industrial estate in […]
Tuesday May 24, 2005 Staff Reporter The Hindu Small-scale industries have high aggregate pollution potential The benchmark report assembles all available data on water and air pollution, biodiversity, land degradation and waste management CHENNAI: The State of Environment (SoE) Report of Tamil Nadu, released by the Environment Department on Monday, officially confirmed what environmentalists had […]
Gummidipoondi, May 21, 2005: The newly elected Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Gummidipoondi, Mr. K.S. Vijaykumar, promised the community representatives that he will ensure that the hazardous waste landfill proposal gets rejected from SIPCOT Gummidipoondi. He gave this assurance to the group of representatives from Gummidipoondi including the local panchayat president who met him […]
Cuddalore, 19 May 2005: A. Pragalathan, a contract worker in Tagros Chemicals from Pachaiyankuppam village, SICPOT Cuddalore, was killed in an accident inside the factory on the evening of 18 May 2005. According to sources the accident took place at about 6:30 pm when Pragalathan was on the maintenance job working on the ground floor […]
Cuddalore, 14 May 2005: In an another incident of what the company and the TNPCB describes as a “vent release”, there was a gas leak reported from the Aluminium Fluoride plant of Tanfac. The leak was reported at about 11 am today and the commuters on the Cuddalore – Chidambaram national highway reported of severe […]
1 April, 2005: Power failure at CUSECS 3; second power failure in CUSECS since February 2005 At midnight March 30-31, 2005, a power failure occurred in CUSECS 3. The matter was reported to CUSECS authorities who said that the companies upstream of CUSECS 3 had been alerted, and that no effluents were being pumped. The […]
Cuddalore, May 13, 2005: Another effluent leak from CUSECS Pump 3 has been reported in SIPCOT Cuddalore. According to SACEM monitors, effluents from CUSECS pump 3 leaked for about four hours on the night of May 11, Tuesday. Pioneer Miyagi Chemicals and SPIC Pharma empty their effluents into CUSECS Pump 3. According to workers from […]