23 August 2009 Special Correspondent The Hindu CUDDALORE: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has served “closure notice” on a pharmaceutical unit and a pesticide unit located in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate here for causing atmospheric pollution. TNPCB sources told The Hindu that as a preliminary step, power supply to Shasun Chemicals and Drugs Ltd. […]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai PharmaBiz.com The pharma major, Shasun Chemicals and Drugs Ltd, has been served a notice by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) asking it to shut down the company’s plant located in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate in Cuddalore for not taking any measures to contain pollution, according […]
Cuddalore, 26 August 2009: One contract worker was injured in an accident inside TANFAC on the midnight of 23rd and 24th August 2009. According to the sources Elumalai of Sandrorpalayam village, a contract worker under Murugan, suffered from chest pain and breathing difficulties after inhaling chlorine fumes inside the unit. He was admitted to Krishna […]
Cuddalore 21 August 2009: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), in a measure to check emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in SIPCOT Cuddalore has issued closure notice to Tagros Chemicals and Shasun Drugs and Chemicals Ltd. This step comes after report from National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) which showed extremely high levels […]
Cuddalore, 18 August 2009: Three workers were injured due to electric shock inside SPIC on 14 August 2009. According to the sources the workers face, hands and other parts of the body turned black after the shock. All workers were admitted to private hospitals in the New Town. While two of them were admitted […]
Mettur, 14 August, 2009 – Giving the lie to Chemplast Sanmar’s claim of Zero Liquid discharge from its chemical facilities in Mettur, the company was caught red-handed last night while discharging highly toxic pollutants into the River Kaveri. Chemplast Sanmar operates four unlicensed chemical plants in Mettur. The four units do not have valid Consent […]
PRESS RELEASE Download this release in Adobe pdf format Chennai, 28 July 2009: Fifteen women, including farmers from Mettur, demonstrated outside Chemplast Sanmar’s annual shareholders’ meeting holding on to pregnant-looking bellies to highlight that pollution from Chemplast’s factories in Mettur were harming future generations. The demonstrators distributed pamphlets and reports detailing the company’s […]