Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Narender Pratap Singh Vs Central Pollution Control Board & Others dated 17/07/2023. Narender Pratap Singh, Gram Pradhan, Bishada, block Bisrakh, tehsil Dadri, district Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh in his application before the National Green Tribunal complained about environmental pollution …
close on the heels of Japan banning asbestos, South Africa too has decided to prohibit the manufacture and new use of the mineral fibre. South Africa's environment minister, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, made this declaration on June 21. "For certain products, where no current alternatives are available, we will allow for …
September saw a slew of developments giving renewed impetus to the global movement against asbestos. While a consensus was evolved in three conferences
Ottawa resolution • All forms of asbestos should be banned in developed and developing countries • Canadian government must withdraw financial and political support to the asbestos industry • It should accept responsibility for the harm done to workers and communities in other countries where Canadian asbestos has been used. …
In the early days of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (gatt), trade and environment related disputes were diplomatically resolved. Over the years, there developed a ‘rule based’ system. Under the present two-stage dispute settlement procedure under the wto, a finding of the dispute settlement panel
White Asbestos The asbestos cement industry is back on the sly with its misinformation campaign. On July 15, 2003, The Indian Express and The Financial Express carried full-page "special features' trying vainly to defend the use of white asbestos fibre by the asbestos cement industry in the country. Shockingly the …
In the Chaibasa region of the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, India, an abandoned chrysotile asbestos mine is a health scourge for villagers and former mine workers. A massive pile of asbestos waste mixed with chromite has lain atop the hilltops of Roro village for two decades, gradually seeping into …
South African mineworkers have received about us $60.3 million as compensation for asbestos exposure. The deal marks the first time black mineworkers have won damages from a South African company. Gencor, a former mining finance house, brokered the agreement on behalf of its former units
it has been proposed to include all forms of asbestos, the pesticide dinitro-ortho-cresol (dnoc) and pesticide formulation Granox tbc/Spinox t in a list of toxic chemicals that would be subject to trade controls. This recommendation was made by the Interim Chemical Review Committee (icrc) of the Rotterdam Convention on the …
Asbestos-related litigation in the us runs into billions of dollars today. So much so that the amount is estimated to exceed the combined cost of destruction caused by 9/11 and Hurricane Andrew. The trend has been accentuated by a spate of new lawsuits against relatively less risky industries that used …
Oil field services company Halliburton Co, once headed by us Vice President Dick Cheney, has reached an agreement by which it could settle all its present and future claims of individuals affected by asbestos. Once the agreement is approved, the company will have to put up 59.5 million shares, us …
Statistics are easy to window-dress: showing everything but concealing vital facts. It is true in case of the small-scale industries (SSIs) also. For an average Indian, SSIs are more than 3.4 million registered small-scale units (and an equal number in the unorganised sector); 100 per cent of sports goods exports …
FOR many years now, small-scale industries have been making ugly rounds of courts. From Delhi to Kolkata, Agra to Vellore, the story repeats itself. Rather with more ferocity. Acting on public interest litigations and frustrated at the government"s lackadaisical attitude, the courts are cracking the whip on the industries. So …
Interestingly, this unregulated and technically incompetent industry sector has been exclusively entrusted to manufacture items, which pollute the most in processes like the garments, leather tanning, dyeing and electroplating. "The economic logic behind this kind of reservation is a fraud," says Shreekant Gupta, reader, Delhi School of Economics, University of …
It is clear that small-scale industries (SSIs) can no longer afford to remain dirty and defiant. The same is true for the government. Not only is it a question of the livelihood of 20 million people but also about cleaning up India's environment, which again affects people. What is required …
These factories do not exist in government records. Nor do they figure in the lists of pollution control boards or other regulatory bodies. Even as they have mushroomed in small towns, they are also sprouting in the dark bylanes of congested localities in large cities. They function from one or …
Trade controls will be imposed on potentially dangerous pesticides and asbestos under a treaty aiming to protect workers in poor countries from hazardous exports. This was stated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently. The UNEP statement said that an experts' committee had recommended three pesticides to be added …
in a historic deal brokered by a British court, building materials firm Cape Plc has agreed to conditionally pay us $30 million to South African miners who blame the company for contracting asbestos-related diseases in South Africa's Northern Cape provinces during the 1970s. The company will now pay us $15, …
even as the controversy generated by Gujarat's highly polluting Alang shipbreaking yard refuses to die down, Andhra Pradesh is clearing the decks for a similar unit to be located in its fragile coastal belt. The proposal for the yard at Vodarevu near Chirala of Prakasam district was given the technical …
The US government agency has reported that toxic materials are continuing to be released from the smouldering wreckage of the World Trade Centre (WTC) Even after a month of the terrorist attack, carcinogenic benzene was found to be 58 times higher, at one site close to ground zero, than the …
