Surveillance cameras will soon monitor the physical changes of the waters of River Periyar.

The Kerala State Pollution Control Board is embarking on a video surveillance programme for the river system in association with Keltron for real time monitoring of the water body. Senior officials from the two agencies will inspect the river system next week to finalise locations for installing the cameras. The project is to install six cameras downstream Pathalam Bund, said K. Sajeevan, chairman of the board.

Illegal mining of sand from riverbeds and banks to feed the construction boom has once again become rampant in Ernakulam district, posing a serious threat to the very survival of rivers.

S. Sitaraman, environmentalist, said that after a brief period when honest police officers had kept a tight leash over the menace by taking stern action against the offenders, the problem had re-emerged in many pockets in the rural areas of the district.

The State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has decided to review the environment monitoring cost (EMC) being charged from hydro-power projects with a capacity of 10 MW or more to ensure that there is

In fresh trouble for the mining industry in Goa, the Pollution Control Board has refused operating consent to all 107 mining leases in the State under the Air and Water Pollution Control Act.

Sending a stern message that it will not take lapses in environmental issues lightly, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has, for the first time, sought action against a senior bureaucrat.

The Vilappilsala people's forum on Monday contended that the environmental study ordered by the Kerala High Court at Vilappisala treatment plant is unwarranted as the functioning of the waste plant

PANJIM: Goa State Pollution Control Board has rejected the renewal of ‘Consent to Operate’ applications of 107 mining leases, and returned them to the respective firms stating that the Board cannot proceed in view of Supreme Court ban on mining operations in Goa.

The mining lease operators had applied for renewal of Air and Water consent, which expired on July 31, 2012. Speaking to HERALD GSPCB Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said that Board had rejected renewal of consent and accordingly all applications were sent back to the firms. “Since Supreme Court has currently halted all mining operations in the State and the matter is pending, at least till January, next year, the Board cannot go ahead with the renewal,” he said.

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, on Monday, directed the State government and the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation to give it a list of the issues relating to the Vilappilsala waste treatment plant which could be gone into by the expert committee proposed by it.

The Bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice A.M. Shaffique adjourned the case to January 2. The court declined the plea of the Vilappilsala Janakeeya Samara Samithi against the constitution of an expert committee.

Protesting against an alleged polluting industrial unit in their town, around 200 residents of Kayalpatnam in Tuticorin district filed RTI petitions with the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) here on Monday. They also met TNPCB officials and made representations with them.

Residents and members of the Kayalpatnam Environmental Protection Association (KEPA) alleged that the factory owned and operated by DCW Ltd at Sahupuram, had been flagrantly flouting environmental norms by releasing effluents into the sea.The factory manufactured caustic soda, liquid chlorine, beneficiated ilmenite and trichloroethylene, and PVC.