Tiruvallur district will soon get its fifth reservoir to meet the growing drinking needs of Chennai. The Water Resources Department has initiated the process by inviting bids from firms for consultancy service to conduct environment studies for the project.
The consultants are required to get clearance from Environment Impact Assessment Authority of Central government for the proposed reservoir with a capacity to hold up to one thousand million cubic feet of water, by filling it twice.
A team of officials from Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) demolished 11 unauthorised textile processing units in Erode town and its suburbs on Tuesday.
The units were found functioning in Rasampalayam, SSP Nagar, and Kongampalayam and dumping huge amount of untreated, toxic effluents in the water sources.
“It appears that the municipality has joined hands with textile processing and tannery industries, which have been causing irreversible damage to the environment by dumping untreated, toxic effluents, many residents in the town say.
The farmers have been fighting for years to protect River Cauvery and its tributaries from the textile processing and the tannery units.
Minister radiates hopes of power-surplus situation by 2014-15
Despite its enormous potential for tapping solar energy, the State has been sanctioned fewer projects under the Jawarhalal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), Electricity Minister Natham R. Viswanathan said on Monday.
The State government would soon launch various projects as part of the first phase of the Kuttanad Package prepared by M.S. Swaminathan Commission, said Sam Eapen, Upper Kuttanad Nelkarshaka Samiti (UKNS) president, here on Sunday.
Calls upon State to stand by Centre in its efforts to make project functional
Union Minister for Shipping G.K. Vasan has called upon the State government to keep the anti-Kudankulam nuclear power project activists under check.
Unveiling the bronze statue of veteran Dalit leader and former president of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee L. Ilayaperumal (1924-2005) at Kattumannarkoil near here on Saturday,
Forum for government to respect sentiments of local people
The newly floated Anti-Nuke Teachers' Forum here on Saturday evening has urged the Centre to convert the Kudankulan Nuclear Power Project nuclear reactors into natural gas-based power generation units as it was done at Shoreham nuclear power plant in the United States following stiff resistance from the locals.
Claims to contrary nonsensical: Nobel Peace laureate
At a time when the debate over nuclear energy is on the boil in Tamil Nadu, German physicist and Nobel Peace laureate Hans-Peter Duerr is as clear on his anti-clear standpoint as his advocacy of solar and other alternative sources for energy security.
CHENNAI: The Central expert group's report on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant issue has answered all questions raised by protestors and was satisfactory, a senior member of the Tamil Nadu government panel, appointed to look into concerns of the locals, said today.
"We have reviewed all concerns raised by the protestors in our report. We also analysed the central expert group committee's report, which has answered all 44 questions raised by the protestors.
‘Initiate criminal action against those running such units'
After a brief lull, the menace of illegal dyeing units has resurfaced in the Tirupur-Namakkal belt. The units have come up even after the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board carried out an extensive demolition drive a few months ago.
