9 March 2011 Special Correspondent The Hindu CUDDALORE: Deriving a lesson from the acid-leak-induced fumes in the Shasun Chemicals and Drugs Ltd. on the SIPCOT Industrial Estate near here that harmed several local residents on Monday night, the authorities should take appropriate safety measures, according to M. Sekar, in-charge district secretary of the Communist […]
9 March 2011 A.V. Ragunathan The Hindu CUDDALORE: Residents of at least three villages were affected by fumes, following an acid leak in unit II of Shasun Chemicals and Drugs Ltd located on SIPCOT Industrial Estate here on Monday night. As many as 71 persons, including 11 children in the age group of […]
United News of India Cuddalore, Mar 8 (UNI) More than 100 people, including women and children, were hospitalised and about 2,000 were evacuated as gas leaked from a chemical factory at SIPCOT Industrial Estate here last night and engulfed about fivehamlets located near the estate. People ran out of their houses in panic […]
PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 07 March 2011, Nalagarh (HP): An independent monitoring report released by the local environmental NGO Himparivesh and Community Environmental Monitoring Campaign has implicated two cement plants in the Nalagarh area of emitting hazardous pollutants in the air. The lives and the health of […]
Ambika Sharma Tribune India Solan, March 6 2011 With the detection of particles of several heavy metals far exceeding the safe limits in an air sample taken from the villages around two cement plants JP Cements and Ambuja Cements Limited in Nalagarh area, questions have been raised on the role played by the […]
PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format 7 March 2011: A day after the local NGO Himparivesh released report of air samples, the locals have observed a flurry of activity at JP’s Cement Grinding and Blending Unit and some of the stone crushers. The report had revealed presence of hazardous levels of […]
Cuddalore, 7/8 March 2011: More than 65 residents of Kudikadu Colony were hospitalized after a massive gas leak from Shasun Chemicals today. According to the SACEM monitors, the incident took place at about 10 pm inside the Shasun Drugs and Chemicals unit in SIPCOT Cudddalore. The source of the leak is attributed to the Bromine […]