Principal Chief Conservator of Forests on Monday informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Bench that no stone quarry lease was granted in Reserve Forest areas of Erode and Coimbatore di
Officials from the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) and the Department of Geology and Mining have completed the physical survey of 17 major mineral quarries and five granite quarries,
Starting Thursday, for a week the Perur Town Panchayat will involve the town’s residents in solid waste management by encouraging them to segregate the waste they generate.
The Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP) on Wednesday conducted a review meeting on biomedical waste disposal in secondary care government hospitals in seven districts of Western Tamil Nadu.
A mud track was laid inside the dam catchment area
Green activists are sore over the laying of a mud track within the Gunderipallam dam catchment area along the Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary and Tiger Reserve and reports of rampant illegal sand mining.
Long hours of power cut in the district since 2008 has turned renewable energy attractive to the industries here.
Apart from the investments made in wind mills, the textile and engineering industries have started tapping solar energy too. When power cut duration increased, industries went in for diesel generators.
Though it is windy season in the State, wind energy generation is not at the maximum because of evacuation problems, according to K. Kasthoorirangaian, chairman of the Indian Wind Power Association.
Nearly 100 powerloom weavers in Coimbatore District are expected to go in for solar systems to run the powerlooms. The Coimbatore District Jobworking Powerloom Weavers’ Association organised a meeting on Monday and Canara Bank disbursed Rs. 5.85 lakh loan to one of the weavers who has established a demonstration system. The loan is repayable in eight years.
Those in Ondipudur on Monday petitioned District Collector M. Karunagaran, against the Coimbatore Corporation’s move to construct a sewage treatment plant there.
