Land Pollution

Albertas oil sands: Hard evidence, missing data, new promises

Pitched battles are a regular occurrence in northern Alberta, Canada, as development of the province’s oil sands continues to expand. One ongoing battle—with another salvo launched in February 2011 with the leak of a European Commission report—concerns how dirty oil sands are, relative to other fuels.

Publication Date:

01/03/2011

Author(s): Bob Weinhold

Source: Environmental Health Perspectives

Vol:

119

Issue:

3

pp:

0

Tags:

Canada, Energy, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Land Pollution

Environment

Farmers facing threat to livelihood

ERODE: Farmers in a few villages in Chennimalai block are facing serious threat to their livelihood due to the indiscriminate discharge of untreated effluents from the textile processing units into the agricultural lands.

The continuous discharge of untreated effluents polluted the groundwater in Chinnapidariyur, Murugampalayam, Attavanai Pidariyur and a few other villages in the block to a gre

Publication Date:

01/02/2011

Source: Hindu (Chennai)

Tags:

Tamil Nadu, Textile Industry, Water Pollution, Land Pollution, Groundwater Pollution

Science And Technology

New bacteria can clean Patancheru

Hyderabad, Dec.

Publication Date:

04/12/2010

Source: Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Arsenic Poisoning, Arsenic, Groundwater Pollution, Land Pollution, Hyderabad (T)

Agriculture

Oils crude touch

A Down to Earth report on ONGC’s oilfields ruining farms in Mehsana district, Gujarat. This district is the most prized onshore oil asset in India for the state-run ONGC, producing about 40,000 barrels crude oil a day. But for farmers the wells spell ruin.

Publication Date:

30/11/2010

Author(s): Ravleen Kaur

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

0

Issue:

0

pp:

0

Tags:

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Land Pollution, Agriculture, Farmers, Compensation

Environment

Contamination of soil and water in and around the Union Carbide site at Bhopal

The Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory at Bhopal, abandoned after the world’s worst industrial disaster that took place on December 3, 1984, is still heavily contaminated with a range of persistent pollutants.

Publication Date:

01/11/2010

Author(s): Nimisha Jadon & et al

Vol:

92

Issue:

10

pp:

122

Tags:

Union Carbide, Environment, CSE Study, Groundwater Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Methyl Isocyanate (MIC), Industrial Disasters, Pesticide Industry, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Land Pollution

Environment

Action plan for industrial cluster: Navi Mumbai

CPCB has published a report on Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of Industrial Cluster in December 2009. In respect of industrial estates in the Maharashtra Chandrapur, Dombivali, Aurangabad, Navi Mumbai & Tarapur have been designated as
critical /severe from environmental pollution angle.

Publication Date:

01/11/2010

Source: Maharashtra Pollution Control Board

Tags:

Industry, Environment, Mumbai, India, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Pollution Control, Landfill, Land Pollution, Industrial Pollution

Environment

Action plan for industrial cluster: Chandrapur

CPCB has published a report on Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of Industrial Cluster in December 2009. In respect of industrial estates in the Maharashtra Chandrapur, Dombivali, Aurangabad, Navi Mumbai & Tarapur have been designated as critical /severe from environmental pollution angle.

Publication Date:

01/11/2010

Source: Maharashtra Pollution Control Board

Tags:

Industrial Pollution, Environment, Maharashtra, Water Pollution, Water Quality, River Basin, Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Solid Waste, Chandrapur (D)

Environment

Proposed action plan for industrial cluster at Aurangabad

CPCB has published a report on Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of Industrial Cluster in December 2009. In respect of industrial estates in the Maharashtra Chandrapur, Dombivali, Aurangabad, Navi Mumbai & Tarapur have been designated as critical /severe from environmental pollution angle. This is the proposed action plan for industrial cluster at Aurangabad.

Publication Date:

01/11/2010

Source: Maharashtra Pollution Control Board

Tags:

Industrial Pollution, Environment, Maharashtra, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, River Basin, Pollution Control, Aurangabad (D)

Environment

Comprehensive environmental pollution abatement action plan, Chitra industrial cluster, Bhavnagar Gujarat

Need of action plan is justified to control pollution in any area where pollution sources are identified, pollutants are measured, assessed and found exceeding permissible limits. To implement such action plans is a duty of any SPCB and all concerned agencies/stakeholders.

Publication Date:

01/10/2010

Source: Gujarat Pollution Control Board

Tags:

Industrial Pollution, Environment, Gujarat, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Groundwater, Land Pollution, Solid Waste, Pollution Control, Bhavnagar (D)

Environment