Sep 28, 2010 Decann Herald News Service In yet another major blow to Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta Resources Group, the Madras High Court, on Tuesday, ordered the immediate closure of the formers Sterlite Industries plant in the port-town of Tuticorin in South Tamil Nadu on serious environmental grounds. Chennai: “There has been unabated pollution by the […]
September 11, 2010 SARAH HIDDLESTON Frontline Hindustan Unilever is avoiding its responsibilities to its workers exposed to mercury in the thermometer factory it owned in Kodaikanal. G.KARTHIKEYAN The unused factory building. IT was when the men in moon suits arrived that it really sank in. There they were, with breathing apparatus and impermeable all-in-ones, gingerly […]
1 September, 2010, Mettur: One worker, R. Palaniappan, aged 50, lost both his feet while doing maintenance work on a 10 mm steel rod cutting machine at around 10.30 a.m. on 31 August, 2010. The accident happened in the steel plant’s TSM plant after the machine was accidentally turned on by a co-worker even […]
Ambika Sharma The Tribune Solan, August 18 With the State Pollution Control Board failing to monitor the critical volatile organic compounds (VOCs), their presence in alarming proportions in the states industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) has rung the alarm bells for environmentalists. In a recent air sampling conducted by local environment action group […]
August 23, 2010 G Babu Jayakumar Expressbuzz By definition, it is an open gathering of officials and stakeholders at which people are allowed to freely offer comments. Officials are not obliged to act on them or even to respond publicly to the issues flagged by the participants. But “open” and “freely” are terms government officials […]
August 23, 2010 U Bharath Expressbuzz A public hearing on the proposal to set up a distillery unit in Vadasery took a violent turn as rival groups clashed with each other on April 9. Thousands of residents had gathered outside the Kings India Chemicals Corporation (allegedly owned by T R B Rajkumar, son […]
August 23, 2010 C Baranidharan Expressbuzz An overwhelming opposition to the proposed common hazardous waste facility at the Perundurai SIPCOT industrial estate greeted officials who turned up for a public hearing on July 28. The atmosphere in the entire town was charged, with posters slamming the project, put up by radical leftist outfits, […]