Cuddalore, 23 April 2005: The industries in SIPCOT Cuddlaore got an unpleasant surprise yesterday when the Local Area Environment Committee chairman, Adv. T. Mohan, along with other LAEC members joined the SACEM monitors on a midnight pollution patrol in the area. The team spent more than two hours in the area visiting every part […]
New Indian Express/ANI April 10, 2005, Sunday SIRUMUGAI: People of Sirumugai on the outskirts of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu are living each day in fear since they heard of a potential danger of pollution or leakage of 450 tonnes of high density liquid carbon-di-sulphide stored in 14 tanks at a factory in their vicinity. The […]
Gummidipoondi, 17 April 2005: About seven hundred people, including six hundred women and about hundred men, came out on the streets of the Gummidipoondi town to show their opposition to the proposed Hazardous waste landfill in the area. Residents take it to the streets to oppose the Toxic waste landfill. The main demand of the […]
Saptarshi Bhattacharya THE HINDU 18 April, 2005 Protesters want government to drop move The protest against hazardous disposal waste at Gummidipoondi turned into a massive citizens rally in the village. GUMMIDIPOONDI (THIRUVALLUR DISTRICT): Villagers around the Gummidipoondi industrial estate today reiterated that they do no want a treatment, storage and disposal facility (TSDF) for hazardous […]
Fears over groundwater contamination Saptarshi Bhattacharya The Hindu 17 April, 2005 CHENNAI: Residents of villages near the Gummidipoondi SIPCOT Industrial Estate, are rallying against the proposed treatment, storage and disposal facility (TSDF) for hazardous wastes at the industrial estate. They fear that the facility would contaminate the groundwater, pose health hazards for the villagers and […]
New Indian Express SOUTHERN NEWS TAMIL NADU April 18, 2005 CHENNAI: Taking ahead their protest against the proposed landfill site in their locality, residents of suburban Gummidipoondi have decided to organise a rally and public meeting on April 17. Earlier, they had raised serious objection, to the move of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control BoardÂ’s […]
13 April, 2005: Several commuters, including children travelling by the Chettiarpettai town bus, felt giddy and nauseous after being exposed to the pollution from Tanfac Ltd. Four people vomited. The incident was recorded at 7.45 p.m. by SIPCOT Area Commmunity Environmental Monitors, who visited the site immediately and reported the incident to the District Environmental […]