July 31, 2017 The Hindu Businessline Energy Infra Post Tamil Nadu: The Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers is planning to revise the Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Industrial Region (PCPIR) policy 2007 after three of the four PCPIRs failed to achieve the “desired success”. Rajeev Kapoor, Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, said […]
Aug 8, 2017 Bosco Dominique Times of India News Network CUDDLORE: The National green tribunal has ordered the Tamil Nadu pollution control board’s (TNPCB) environmental engineer (Cuddalore district) to inspect an industry in Sipcot industrial complex in Cuddalore district and take appropriate steps to shut it down if found that it has been operating […]
POISONED – Report on the Environmental Sampling around the Coal Mines, Thermal Power Plants and Ash Ponds in Tamnar Block of Raigarh, Chhattisgarh August 2017 Plant Diversity In And Around Proposed Site For Cheyyur 4000mw Coal-Fired Power Project, Kanchipuram D. Narasimhan – Professor, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College,Tambaram, Chennai Devanathan […]
August 5, 2017 Special Correspondent The Hindu The Madras High Court on Friday issued notices to the Centre, Department of Chemicals and Petro Chemical, and Housing and Urban Development Department, on a public interest litigation. The PIL, filed by G. Sundarrajan of Poovulagin Nanbargal, sought the quashing of a G.O. that delineated 45 villages in […]
August 6, 2017 S. Prasad The Hindu Up in arms: Delta Water Resources Protection Front and various outfits participating in an agitation against the PCPIR project at Sirkazhi in Nagapattinam district. T.Singaravelou Activists say government action will badly hit Cuddalore and Nagapattinam, and render the region a wasteland “We are in no man’s […]
7th August 2017 By Express News Service CHENNAI: Pharmaceutical major Strides Shasun, which has secured the US Food and Drug Administrations approval for its three plants in Puducherry and Cuddalore, is facing trouble. The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently directed the District Environment Engineer to inspect the firm’s plant in Cuddalore […]
JULY 22, 2017 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Hindu Activists say the project will worsen the situation in Cuddalore, Nagapattinam Chennai: A year after it expressed its intention to delineate 45 villages in Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts as Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR) under the Town and Planning Act, the Tamil Nadu government has recently […]