8 February 2010 Times of India Cuddalore: The SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors (SACEM), a non-government forum, has raised strong objection to the proposed 3,600-MW thermal power plant, captive port and desalination plant in Cuddalore and sought to highlight several lacunae in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) done by the Infrastructure Leasing & Financial […]
16 January 2010 Special Correspondent The Hindu The Centre has imposed temporary restrictions on new development projects in industrial clusters that score more than 70 points on the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests recently. The restrictions on projects from critically polluted industrial clusters will be […]
PRESS RELEASE 5 January 2010 Responding to a Writ Petition filed in the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) challenging the environmental clearance and license to construct granted to Sterlite Industries’ for expanding its copper smelting capacity from the current 400,000 tpa to 800,000 tpa, the company was forced to commit an undertaking that it […]
PRESS RELEASE 7 January 2010 Responding to a Writ Petition filed in the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) challenging the environmental clearance and license to construct granted to Sterlite Industries’ for expanding its copper smelting capacity from the current 400,000 tpa to 800,000 tpa, the company was forced to commit an undertaking that it would […]
Cuddalore, 19 November 2009: Fishermen in Uppanar reported a fish kill near Kudikadu-Uppanar Vaikal (canal) at about 6 am in the morning. Dead fish found were of several variety like Madavai, Sethakendai, Keluthi, Yeral (prawn), Nandu (crab), Ulluvali, Kezhangan. Except for Madavi rest all varieties are of bottom dwelling fish. Fishermen also reported the water […]
19 November 2009 A.V. Ragunathan The Hindu Effluents from industrial estate also cause health hazards CUDDALORE: Residents of V.K.J. Nagar in Panchankuppam area near here detest rain because even the slightest shower leaves their place waterlogged. About 100 houses are thus facing the threat of inundation from overflowing sewage and run-off from the nearby garbage […]
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL CHENNAI, 3 November, 2009 — The Hindu Group of Publications today confirmed that they had cancelled a sponsorship they had received from Dow Chemical India for a celebrated annual classical music concert called The Hindu Friday Review November Fest 2009 between November 17 and 22. Dow […]