Report filed by the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board in the matter of News item titled 'Residents stage protest against pollution caused by Vijayawada Thermal Power Station" which appeared in the Hindu, November 4, 2024. The report was dated February 22, 2025. M/s Dr. Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Station is …
TEN years after the Bhopal tragedy, a former Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) plant operator in his book, Bhopal: The Inside Story, says that the UCIL contention that a disgruntled worker was responsible for the accident is bunkum. With supportive testimonies from 15 workers, including the one being blamed by …
THE residents of Kardampuri colony in East Delhi woke up to a noxious nightmare in the wee hours of November 13. Toxic fumes from a heap set afire by a local junk dealer sent them scurrying out of their beds. The panicky exodus of reeling men, women and children put …
The Bhopal High Court has pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for "lack of seriousness" in handling criminal proceedings against Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), whose negligence caused the Bhopal gas leak in 1984. In a three-and-a-half page order given on September 27, chief judicial magistrate Anil Kumar Chaturvedi …
Though a deadly gas leak two months ago caused nine deaths, Century Rayon is back in full production despite orders from the Maharashtra environment ministry and the state pollution control board (MPCB) to keep the mill closed until all MPCB directives had been implemented. Factory authorities had pleaded then that …
Soon after the gas leak at Century Rayon's Thane plant, which took a toll of 10 dead and 125 injured, the company was issued a closure notice by the Maharashtra state environment ministry. The Birla-owned company flouted the notice for nearly one month, citing financial reasons. But a subsequent 72-hour, …
HOECHST, the German chemical company, continues to be plagued by accidents with the ninth so far since February 22 (See Down To Earth, April 30, 1993) consisting of toxic fumes that leaked from the main plant near Frankfurt. Neighbourhood residents, facing a danger from spreading fumes were asked to remain …
CENTURY Rayon is seeking to spread the blame for a poison gas disaster on March 17, 1993, that killed 10 villagers near the mill in Shahad, Thane district. Mill authorities have roped in three agencies to certify as safe the mill's untreated effluents that are reported to have reacted with …
In the early hours of Moday, Dec 3,1984, a toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate (MIC)gas enveloped the hundreds of shanties and huts surrounding a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Later, as the deadly cloud slowly drifted in the cool night air through streets in surrounding sections, sleeping residents awoke, coughing, …
IF LIVING proof is needed of how institutions created by human beings for their welfare really work, one has only to go to Bhopal, where thousands succumbed in a deadly MIC gas leak on the night of December 2-3 in 1984. Eight years later, apathy, arrogance and greed still prevail …
IT WAS a routine job of replacing the defective safety valve of the spare ammonia feed pump at the 15-year-old urea plant of the National Fertilisers Limited (NFL) at Panipat. Around 11.00 am on August 26, eight employees climbed the steps to the open-air ramp, which had been declared a …
SEEING Beyond Genocide again after four years can bring back the anger and frustration one felt when visiting Bhopal shortly after the Union Carbide gas leak and wandering through JP Nagar and the MIC ward of Hamidia Hospital. In 1988, Doordarshan declared that a film on this unending tragedy was …
WHILE contaminated water has occupied centrestage in Udaipur for many years, the Pesticides India plant has been insidiously emitting odorous gases for almost as long. The plant manufactures pesticides, including phorate, all of which are highly toxic. While officials at the plant claim they have taken all possible precautions to …
