Supreme Court judgement dated 06/10/2009 on river Noyyal pollution. The Court was of the opinion that there has been unabated pollution by the members of Tirupur Dyeing Factory Owners. They cannot escape the responsibility to meet out the expenses of reversing the ecology. They are bound to meet the expenses of removing the sludge of the river.
An investigation was carried out to study the effect of distillery effluent based pressmud compost (DEPC) on seed yield and seed quality attributes of paddy cv. Pus a Basmati-1 at Seed Production Unit, IARI, New Delhi.
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to go through a report by a monitoring committee and submit a timeframe by which it intended to take corrective measures with regard to dyeing units in three villages of Karur town.
After facing an environmental threat from the two thermal plants, the Bathinda area will have to cope with the adverse effects of the proposed oil refinery being set up by HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd. The refinery may start by 2011. The two thermal plants, to be operational in two-three years, will use 77,585 tonnes of coal daily.
ANANTAPUR, Sept. 22: Industrial pollutants are contaminating the Penna river in Anantapur district.
Many industries located along the banks are indiscriminately releasing effluents into the river at Tadipatri which has constant groundwater levels in the district.
There are 200 granite and 1,000 blackstone industries concentrated in and around Tadipatri.
Needed facility: A view of the biogas plant in Tuticorin on Wednesday.
Tuticorin: Collector G. Prakash inaugurated a 250-KVa (Kilo Volt ampere) project to generate electricity from effluents released fish processing companies here on Wednesday.
He said the waste extracted from fish cleaning and exporting activities could be converted into useful gas.
