Tag: Kerala

  • Compensation for endosulfan victims, State to move court

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    NewIndPress.com, October 5, 2006 Eight-month-old Sainaba suffers from hydocephalus. A minimum of a dozen Kasaragod villages have thousands of poor villagers of all age groups suffering from various incurable ailments as a result of endosulfan spraying on cashew plantations T’PURAM: The State Government has decided to approach the court demanding compensation for the victims of…

  • Chemical plant burns down – no one is responsible

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    On 6 July, 2004, a little after 2 a.m., residents living downwind of the Hindustan Insecticides Ltd (HIL) pesticide factory in Eloor, Kerala, were alerted to a fire in the factory’s endosulphan plant. Based on varying accounts, the fire raged for between three and four hours and gutted most of the five-storey endosulphan plant. Twelve…

  • Chemical disaster hits Kerala, hundreds affected

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    Massive fire in the Hindustan Insecticides Limited Factory in Eloor, Kerala burns down Endosulfan plant. Hundreds of people living around face severe health problems. This incident, which happened in the early hours of 6 July is nowhere mentioned in any of the major Indian or international news media. The Periyar Malineekarana Virudha Samithi (PMVS –…

  • Urgent Action Alert: Coca Cola pollution protestors arrested, falsely accused

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    Kerala: people protesting the Coca Cola Plachimada facility’s contamination of local groundwater and land – with toxins such as cadmium and lead – are experiencing repression at the hands of local police and company hirelings. 13 peaceful protestors – two of whom are leading activists against Coca Cola – have been arrested and falsely accused…

  • Coca Cola scandal deepens, killings begin

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    Despite selling poisoned drinks, and spewing out carcinogenic sludge from their plants, sucking the ground dry, thus destroying the livelihoods of local farmers and forcing local people to trudge for miles in search of alternative water sources, it seems that American multinationals Coke and Pepsi, like Enron and Union Carbide before them, are being protected…