Recent Updates:
Residents Protest Effluent Discharge in SIPCOT Canal: Block the National Highway
Cuddalore, 25 August 2010: Protesting the discharge of effluents through the storm water drains by the SIPCOT units, more than 100 residents of SIPCOT Cuddalore blocked the National Highway (NH) 45A today. The villagers were forced to take this step after the effluent discharge contaminated the village canal in Sangolikuppam village of SIPCOT. Read more...
A farce called public hearing
Chennai, 23 August 2010: By definition, it is an open gathering of officials and stakeholders at which people are allowed to freely offer comments. Officials are not obliged to act on them or even to respond publicly to the issues flagged by the participants. Read media story...
Public ire against waste facility in Perundurai
Perundurai, 23 August 2010:An overwhelming opposition to the proposed common hazardous waste facility at the Perundurai SIPCOT industrial estate greeted officials who turned up for a public hearing on July 28.Read media story...
DMK men’s show of strength in Kodungaiyur
Kodungaiyur, 23 August 2010:Residents of Kodungaiyur left with more than just a bitter aftertaste from a kalyana mandapam in Washermanpet on June 18 this year. Read media story...
Yes men armtwist distillery opposers
Vadasery, 23 August 2010:A public hearing on the proposal to set up a distillery unit in Vadasery took a violent turn as rival groups clashed with each other on April 9. Read media story...
Volatile organic compounds found in Baddi
Solan, August 18 With the State Pollution Control Board failing to monitor the critical volatile organic compounds (VOCs), their presence in alarming proportions in the state’s industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) has rung the alarm bells for environmentalists. Read media story...
SIPCOT Accident: Female Worker Dies at Pondicherry Alum
Cuddalore, 12 August 2010: 56 year old P. Sundari, a worker at Pondicherry Alum and Chemicals Ltd, is reported to have died in an accident within the factory premises on 8th August 2010. Read more...
Is your garam masala safe from mercury?
Kodaikanal, 19 July 2010 Paliya tribes living in and around Kodaikanal are allegedly facing health problems attributable to mercury pollution, according to an NGO working with tribals in the region. Read media story...
Poison in the air
ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR
in Cuddalore
Frontline
The Hindu
04 June, 2005
Poisonous gases released into the air by some chemical units in the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods of people in a number of villages in the absence of government action.
At the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore. Gases released by chemical units have severely affected the air quality in the area.
VILLAGES in the industrial area on the outskirts of Cuddalore town in Tamil Nadu are increasingly being identified more by pungent smells than their names - smells of rotten cabbage, burnt rubber, rotten egg, neem, detergent, human excreta, decomposing bodies, mosquito coils, rotting bones, decaying chikoo fruit, and nail polish. The smells come from toxic chemical compounds that are manufactured or released as effluents by the 18 companies in the industrial area and which have been damaging the environment and the health of more than 20,000 people in about 20 villages. Read more...
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Besides training villagers in the science of pollution, the Community Environmental Monitoring initiative seeks to involve villagers in the fight against pollution by engaging them in environmental and health monitoring, and sustainable livelihood activities.
CEM is as much about the community as it is about the environment. CEM sees political empowerment and the right to make informed decisions about development as key to success in the struggle against environmental casteism and discrimination. While local self-help is an emphasis, CEM's philosophy also hinges on holding corporations and polluters accountable. More About Us..
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