Media Stories – Page 161 – Sipcot Area – Community Environmental Monitors

Orientation for the Right Livelihood trainings – Pollution-impacted communities in SIPCOT, Cuddalore

By sacemPosted on February 16, 2005Posted in Media Stories, updates

8 February, 2005: The orientation for the Right Livelihood trainings among the pollution-impacted communities in SIPCOT, Cuddalore, began on 7 February, 2005, and will continue until 10 February, 2005. Five resource persons from the Thanal/Zero Waste Centre, Kovalam, are currently in Cuddalore assisting communities with the orientation program and initiating discussions on the possible livelihood […]

Industrial accident in M/s Tagros Chemicals (P) Ltd.

By sacemPosted on February 16, 2005Posted in Media Stories, updates

Date: 14 February 2005 SIPCOT Area Community Environment Monitors 27, Abdul Khader Street, Manjakuppam, Cuddlaore 670 001 To District Environment Engineer Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Shekhar Nagar, Cuddalore 670 001 Inspector Inspector of Factories, Cuddalore District, Cuddalore Copy: Chairperson, Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (drgtrajan@yahoo.com) Dr. Claude Alvares, Member SCMC (oib@sancharnet.in) Chairperson, Local Area Environment […]

SPIC Pharmaceuticals was caught burning huge amounts of date expired medicines in Pallikarnai marsh in Perungudi

By sacemPosted on February 16, 2005Posted in Media Stories, updates

February 10, 2005 SPIC Pharmaceuticals was caught red-handed burning about 200 to 300 kg of date-expired medicines on the National Highway near the Pallikaranai marshlands in Perungudi, near Chennai, today. Activists from Chennai-based Consumer Action Group and Toxics Link were first to reach the spot, and intimate local authorities. Ragpickers scavenging through the smouldering pile […]

Lay, Community and Worker Epidemiology An Integrating Strand in Participatory Research

By sacemPosted on February 16, 2005Posted in Media Stories

Andrew Watterson Introduction Download this report in Adobe pdf format Effective public health should be based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) principles of ‘upstream’ health interventions to prevent the development of avoidable diseases, rather than focus on downstream medical interventions to treat preventable diseases. The achievement of such an approach should therefore rest on […]

Introduction to Wipe Sampling SOURCE: Communities for a Better Environment

By sacemPosted on February 16, 2005Posted in Media Stories

After a chemical release, community members sometimes notice that substances have collected on the rooftops or walls of their homes or other buildings, surfaces of their automobiles, or windowsills, or other surfaces inside of their homes. “Wipe sampling” is a procedure for collecting those substances and determining what chemicals are in them. WARNING: Wipe sampling […]