Cuddalore, May 13, 2005: Another effluent leak from CUSECS Pump 3 has been reported in SIPCOT Cuddalore. According to SACEM monitors, effluents from CUSECS pump 3 leaked for about four hours on the night of May 11, Tuesday. Pioneer Miyagi Chemicals and SPIC Pharma empty their effluents into CUSECS Pump 3. According to workers from […]
CHENNAI, May 9, 2005 — The air in Cuddalore SIPCOT chemical industrial estate is still not fit to breathe, concluded “Gas Trouble II: Air Quality Status and Assessment of TNPCB’s Compliance to Supreme Court Monitoring Committee Order,” a new report prepared by the SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors (SACEM). A recent investigation by SACEM, that […]
SIPCOT Villagers Say No to Polluting Industries; Tell TNPCB to Clean Up Existing Pollution New PVC Plant and Oil Refinery Could Imperil Already Polluted Area CUDDALORE, 5 May, 2005 Three Hundred SIPCOT villagers and fisherfolk from Cuddalore district today marched to the Collectorate to demand a stop to the setting up of toxic industries […]
25th April 2005 L. No. 89-04/05 The Chairperson Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Chennai – 600 032. Dear Ms.Vaidyanathan, I visited the SIPCOT Industrial Estate, Cuddalore on 21st and 22nd April 2005. On 22nd April 2005, along with the District Environmental Engineer (DEE) and members of the LAEC, I visited Tagros, Victory Chemicals, CUSECS6, TANFAC […]
25th April 2005 L. No. 89-04/05 The Chairperson Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Chennai – 600 032. Dear Ms.Vaidyanathan, I visited the SIPCOT Industrial Estate, Cuddalore on 21st and 22nd April 2005. On 22nd April 2005, along with the District Environmental Engineer (DEE) and members of the LAEC, I visited Tagros, Victory Chemicals, CUSECS6, TANFAC […]
Cuddalore, 23 April 2005: The industries in SIPCOT Cuddlaore got an unpleasant surprise yesterday when the Local Area Environment Committee chairman, Adv. T. Mohan, along with other LAEC members joined the SACEM monitors on a midnight pollution patrol in the area. The team spent more than two hours in the area visiting every part […]
Gummidipoondi, 17 April 2005: About seven hundred people, including six hundred women and about hundred men, came out on the streets of the Gummidipoondi town to show their opposition to the proposed Hazardous waste landfill in the area. Residents take it to the streets to oppose the Toxic waste landfill. The main demand of the […]