Chennai Online Chennai, May 9: The air over SIPCOT Chemical Industrial Estate at Cuddalore is unfit to breathe, with seven of the 12 toxic gases released by factories seriously violating one or more US standards for safe ambient air, according to a second study released today by the SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors (SACEM). The […]
Jaya Menon in Chennai The Statesman May 9. Activists in Cuddalore, about 200 km from Chennai, have demanded severe action against the chemical industries housed in the SIPCOT industrial area here for spewing toxic pollutants in the air making it “unfit to breathe in”. The SIPCOT Area Community Environment Monitors (SACEM), an organization with members […]
CHENNAI, May 9, 2005 — The air in Cuddalore SIPCOT chemical industrial estate is still not fit to breathe, concluded “Gas Trouble II: Air Quality Status and Assessment of TNPCB’s Compliance to Supreme Court Monitoring Committee Order,” a new report prepared by the SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors (SACEM). A recent investigation by SACEM, that […]
SIPCOT Villagers Say No to Polluting Industries; Tell TNPCB to Clean Up Existing Pollution New PVC Plant and Oil Refinery Could Imperil Already Polluted Area CUDDALORE, 5 May, 2005 Three Hundred SIPCOT villagers and fisherfolk from Cuddalore district today marched to the Collectorate to demand a stop to the setting up of toxic industries […]
25th April 2005 L. No. 89-04/05 The Chairperson Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Chennai – 600 032. Dear Ms.Vaidyanathan, I visited the SIPCOT Industrial Estate, Cuddalore on 21st and 22nd April 2005. On 22nd April 2005, along with the District Environmental Engineer (DEE) and members of the LAEC, I visited Tagros, Victory Chemicals, CUSECS6, TANFAC […]
25th April 2005 L. No. 89-04/05 The Chairperson Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Chennai – 600 032. Dear Ms.Vaidyanathan, I visited the SIPCOT Industrial Estate, Cuddalore on 21st and 22nd April 2005. On 22nd April 2005, along with the District Environmental Engineer (DEE) and members of the LAEC, I visited Tagros, Victory Chemicals, CUSECS6, TANFAC […]
Anand Haridas The Hindu 21 April, 2005 Eggs form part of a balanced diet, but a study has now proved that the same could be indicators of environmental pollution. KOCHI: Samples of chicken eggs collected from the industrial areas of Eloor and Kuzhikandam Creek in Kochi have proved to be warnings on the alarming rate […]