Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government has flexed its muscles at Coke and Pepsi at one go. Within 24 hours of deciding to set up a tribunal to fine Rs 196 crore as environmental damages from Coca Cola, LDF government has indicated that Pepsico factory in Kanjikode too, is guilty of environmental offences.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groundwater levels in Pudussery grama panchayat, Palakkad, where Pepsico has its unit, are falling, the Assembly was told on Thursday.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After Coca Cola, another soft-drink major Pepsi has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala which has alleged that its plant in Palakkad district was extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants.
SAMBALPUR: Closure of Orient Paper Mills (OPM) at Brajrajnagar proved bane for some and boon for others. The shutdown of OPM way back in 1999 left many people jobless, but it continues to benefit farmers with the Paper Mill Sludge (PMS) left behind by the mill helping farmers strike right pH balance. The use of PMS has helped the farmers which is also reflecting on the productivity.
Three years ago, the Forest Research Institute (FRI) had proposed the utilisation of a cost-effective and natural way of treating industrial or domestic wastes to clear the Yamuna River of pollution in Delhi, but the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has given a deaf year to the FRI proposal.
Citing the Bhopal gas leak case, a prominent environmental organisation from Orissa on Wednesday demanded that compensation claims be filed against Tata Refractories for releasing poisonous chemicals outside their factory premises three years ago.
A tragedy similar to Bhopal gas leak is in the making our own backyard -- Kodaikanal. A series of flawed policies in handling the mercury leak at the Hindustan Lever Limited's failure to p factory there nine years ago has denied justice to the people and resulted in f protect a sensitive ecosystem.
The Jharkhand Infrastructure Development Corporation today submitted its preliminary report to the Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited (AACL) on the proposed common effluent treatment plant to be set-up as a part of the Rs 70-crore cluster project in Adityapur.
