Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
May 11 India's Numaligarh Refiners Ltd said on Monday it had extinguished a fire at the hydrocracker unit at its 60,000-barrel-per-day plant in the northeastern state of Assam and had resumed the process of starting up the entire plant in phases. The refinery has been closed for about a month …
The number of workers exposed to high radiation at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant in fiscal 2014 has grown 1.5-fold from the year before, data from Tokyo Electric said Saturday. A total of 992 workers, mostly those employed by subcontractors, saw their doses top 20 millisieverts in the …
SHENYANG, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Five people died after a fire broke out in a pyrite mine in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local authorities said Friday. The accident happened in a pyrite mine under construction in Jianchang County around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday when six workers were carrying out maintenance …
Hazardous chemicals are a vital part of many industries, but lax and inconsistent safety standards put workers' health and lives at risk all over the world, writes Christian Friis Bach. Christian Friis Bach is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for …
CMC observed World Day for Safety and Health at Work Are healthcare professionals and workers immune to health hazards? In fact, the healthcare sector ranks quite high in the hierarchy of hazards, with the possibility of exposure to radiation, chemicals, infections and muscular-skeletal risks, say experts. “In fact, even transport …
DATONG - Twenty-one people were confirmed dead as of Thursday morning, four days after water from a ground-level reservoir flooded a coal mine in the northern province of Shanxi, according to the work safety regulator. A total of 247 people were working in Jiangjiawan Mine in Datong city when the …
DAR ES SALAAM - The collapse of an illegal gold mine has killed 19 people in northwest Tanzania, a senior police official said on Friday. The accident occurred on Thursday night at Kahama district, Shinyanga region, near Acacia Mining's licensed Bulyanhulu gold mine which is majority-owned by Canada's Barrick Gold …
Former managers of a Turkish coal mine where 301 people died last year have appeared in court on murder charges. The eight ex-managers were ordered to testify in person, after plans for them to appear via video link caused outrage among victims' relatives. A total of 45 people are on …
Hundreds of protesters marched in western Turkey on Monday, demanding harsh sentences for mining company executives at the start of their trial over the deaths of 301 miners, the country's worst industrial accident. The underground fire last May sent deadly carbon monoxide coursing through the mine in the town of …
Royal Dutch Shell released 76 million tonnes of direct greenhouse gas emissions, used 193 million cubic metres of fresh water, and disposed of 2.2 million tonnes of waste in 2014. The figures come from the oil and gas giant's latest Sustainability Report.
A blaze at a Fujian chemical plant roared back to life last night several hours after it was reportedly extinguished, fanning fears over public safety and environmental fallout from controversial petrochemical projects. State broadcaster CCTV reported that some firefighters were recalled to the paraxylene (PX) plant in Zhangzhou after fires …
At least four people died after a fire broke out on a Pemex oil processing platform in the Gulf of Mexico early on Wednesday, leading to the evacuation of 302 workers, the Mexican state-run oil company said. The fire, which burned throughout the day, erupted overnight on the Abkatun Permanente …
One miner was killed and two injured in an accident at a Murray Energy Corp coal mine in West Virginia, the company said on Monday. The accident took place late on Sunday at the Marshall County Coal Co's Marshall County Mine near Cameron, West Virginia, said Murray Energy, the biggest …
SHILLONG: In pursuance of the recommendations of the Group of Officers constituted by the Centre to deal with the issues related to ban on coal mining, the State Government is planning to submit a proposal to the Centre for suitable exemptions to traditional mining practices (rat hole mining) under Para …
BEIJING - The State Administration of Work Safety on Wednesday vowed to close at least 5,000 small mines, which is equal to 5 percent of the nation's mines, to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities in 2015. A 2007 regulation defines serious accidents as those causing 10 to 30 …
Thirty-three miners were confirmed dead late on Wednesday after a coal mine blast in the rebel-held city of Donetsk near the battle front in eastern Ukraine, indicating no one trapped in the rubble survived. Mine officials said the explosion was most likely caused by gas and not fighting in the …
A Hiroshima-based research institute plans to conduct lifelong health monitoring of people who worked at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after the tsunami-triggered meltdown disaster struck there on March 11, 2011, it was learned on Wednesday. This will be the first such long-running survey on the people who worked …
Two people died and at least 13 were injured after an explosion at a factory belonging to Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, police said on Monday. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Officials at the company could not immediately be reached. …
Four people believed to be illegal miners were feared dead after a landslide at an opencast lignite mine at Dubrave in northeast Bosnia, police and officials said on Sunday. Several people were buried by the landslide late on Saturday and rescuers were trying to get to them, Tuzla police spokesman …
A worker at Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Tuesday after falling into a water storage tank, the latest in a spate of industrial accidents at the site of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, the world’s worst since Chernobyl. The death is the second in Fukushima in …
