Tag: industrial pollution
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Arsenic-compound spill affects drinking water for 80,000 in China
ASIA PACIFIC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 10, 2006 Beijing – A leak of an arsenic compound from a waste tank at a chemical plant in central China poisoned the drinking water of 80,000 people, with authorities Sunday issuing urgent warnings. The people of Chengguang in the district of Yueyang in Hunan province were warned not to drink…
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N-waste? Madonna has a solution
ABUL TAHER, THE SUNDAY TIMES, AUGUST 21, 2006 Despite being told their ideas defy the laws of physics, the material girl and her film-maker husband believe Kabbalah fluid can be given magical powers, writes Abul Taher MADONNA and her husband, Guy Ritchie, have been lobbying the British Government and nuclear industry over a magic cleaning…
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Federal investigators begin probe of latest BP explosion:
DINA CAPPIELLO, PEGGY O’HARE and THAYER EVANS, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, JULY 29, 2006 TEXAS CITY – Federal investigators expect to be on the scene by midday today to begin a probe into Thursday’s explosion at BP’s Texas City plant, the second such incident this year. Smoke and flames again erupted there early Thursday evening, shaking windows…
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Air pollution: Tamil Nadu becoming second Bhopal
PAPRI SRI RAMAN Chennai, June 7 (IANS) Environmental agencies in Tamil Nadu are demanding monitoring stations in heavily industrialised pockets after a study found air samples from the state among the most polluted in India. The groups have urged the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to apply for central funds to set up volatile organic…
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Tamilnadu supports the Bhopali padyatris
On 5 March 2006, ex-workers from Hindustan Lever’s now-closed mercury thermometer factory held a demonstration in solidarity with the Bhopalis on the 5th anniversary of their struggle against the multinational. They are demanding long-term health care and research, and livelihood rehabilitation. All workers were exposed to dangerous levels of mercury in the workplace. On 9…
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Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board orders Tagros Chemicals shut, cuts electricity connection
By Nityanand Jayaraman CUDDALORE, 6 MARCH, 2006 The Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board at 4.30 p.m. issued closure orders and disconnected the electricity to Tagros Chemicals, a manufacturer of synthetic pyrethroids, a class of highly toxic pesticides. The company, which is located in Pachaiyankuppam village, had expanded capacity illegally, and was manufacturing and exporting products that…
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Fishy Tales: how industry is destroying a river, a way of a life and a community's health in Cuddalore
FISH EXPORTS FROM CUDDALORE DECLINE DRAMATICALLY AS CHEMICAL INFLUX FROM INDUSTRIES INTO THE ENVIRONMENT INCREASE. By VK Shashikumar Murthy, a fisherman from Sonanchawdi village in Cuddalore despairs over the chemical influx in the Uppanar River. “Our fishing activities have been grievously affected and the children in our community show signs of chemical poisoning. They complain…
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Stop Chemplast returning to Cuddalore: company indicted for careless and dangerous waste disposal wants to return to the heavily polluted SIPCOT site
CUDDALORE, July 26, 2005 Villagers living near the SIPCOT industrial estate near Cuddalore are fighting to prevent the return to the lethally polluted facility (see previous entry) of arch-polluter Chemplast. Chemplast, the PVC manfacturer from Mettur, was driven out of Cuddalore in 2002. It went to Andhra. But Cuddalore villagers and activists got there earlier.…
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Dow tries to stifle historians who uncovered its secrets
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, BUY THEIR BOOK HERE Dow Chemical is leading a group ot twenty chemical giants in an all-out attack on two historians who have uncovered the sordid history of vinyl chloride production and its effects on health in the United States and Europe. Dow is the world’s largest producer of vinyl chloride, a…
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People breathing poison in Cuddalore
For the first time in India the air that people living near industries breathe has been tested for toxic gases. The results confirm local people’s worst fears, say Sipcot Community Health Monitors, who carried out the study under the direction of Denny Larson of Global Community Monitor. “In nine years I have seen at least…
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Chlorine leak from rogue plant hospitalises 23
A chlorine leak at 6 p.m. on 18 July, 2004, from a pipeline running between Chemplast Sanmar’s chlorine plant and its adjacent fumed silica plant in Mettur Dam, Tamilnadu, sent 23 people to the hospital. More than 50 people are reported to have fainted after inhaling the chlorine fumes. A 22-day old child, and two…
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Law Ministry passes case to Ministry of Environment & Forests
ONLY EIGHT DAYS LEFT FOR THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO WRITE TO THE US COURT IN THE BHOPAL CLEANUP CASE: LAW MINISTRY MOVES THE CASE TO THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS New Delhi, June 21, 2004: On the 4th day of the hunger strike by three Bhopal activists at Jantar Mantar, and with just eight…
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Echoes of Bhopal in California
Rashida Bee, Margie Richards from Norco, Louisiana, Hilton Kelley from Port Arthur, Texas — all residents of toxic hotspots — today went on a toxic tour of one of the Bay Area Bhopals, guided by Denny Larson of Bucket Brigade fame and Henry Clark of the local NGO West Country Toxic Coalition. Richmond, California is…
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Tell Dow to face Bhopal now
Union members and academics from all over the world can now lend their names to the fight to make The Dow Chemical Company accept its liabilities in Bhopal by signing our online petitions. By submitting your name you’ll not only help to make it impossible for Dow to continue with its intransigence towards Bhopal, you’ll…