13 April, 2005: Several commuters, including children travelling by the Chettiarpettai town bus, felt giddy and nauseous after being exposed to the pollution from Tanfac Ltd. Four people vomited. The incident was recorded at 7.45 p.m. by SIPCOT Area Commmunity Environmental Monitors, who visited the site immediately and reported the incident to the District Environmental […]
13 April, 2005: Goons paid off by a local industry ransacked a chicken stall run by monitor S. Pugazhenthi of Sangolikuppam between 10 and 10.45 p.m. today. Sangolikuppam residents have identified the miscreants as people linked to a local businessman running an illegal chemical unit in the vicinity. Pugazhenthi’s security was compromised after a complaint […]
11 April, 2004 Name of deceased: R. Radhakrishnan Age: 40 yrs Job description: contract worker in TANFAC On 11th April 2004, R. Radhakrishnan – a contract worker resident at Periyapillayarmedu, Karaikadu Post, Cuddalore – was exposed to concentrated sulphuric acid while cleaning a valve in an acid tank in TANFAC, SIPCOT Cuddalore. After being hospitalized […]
11 April, 2005: The Tamilnadu State, we hear, is breathing down the Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board’s neck asking the regulator to clear Chemplast Sanmar’s proposal to set up a 1,70,000 tonnes per annum PVC plant in Cuddalore. The plant was rejected by Cuddalore residents in 2002 at a Government-held public hearing over fears that the […]
23 March 2005 SACEM noticed and reported another incident of effluent leak in the pipeline that carries the effluents to CUSECS pump 2. The effluent overflow was noticed at about 10:20 am on Monday, March 21, 2005, near Periya Karaikadu. According to the monitors, the effluent was black in colour and had a rotten egg […]
20 March, 2005: Tiruvallur district collectorate today witnessed democracy in action, when more than 350 villagers attended a public hearing to voice their opposition to a hazardous waste facility that was proposed to be set up near their village in Gummidipoondi in North Tamilnadu. People from four villages — B.R. Kandigai, S.R. Kandigai, Pappankuppam and […]
13 March, 2005: We were in shock from the moment we entered SIPCOT area Bhuvana narrates Bunking college, a bunch of lies to mom. and there I was, on my way to Cuddalore. For a sea loving person that I am, the journey along the coastline was a joy in itself. The articles that we […]