Solan, March 30 The state government today sought a report from the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) regarding discrepancies in furnishing information relating to hazardous waste under the RTI Act to the NGO Himparivesh. This action followed publication of the report ‘Industries fail to send waste to treatment plant: RTI’ in these columns on March […]
7th July 2012 In a major setback to Jaiprakash Associates Limited, a Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Friday dismissed two review petitions filed by the corporate group against the Court’s decision to dismantle its captive thermal power plant and against a direction imposing punitive damages of Rs.100 crore for not taking […]
As the world celebrates yet another ‘Environment Day’ carrying the message of ‘saving the environment’ by planting trees, recycling plastic and switching off the bulbs and fans, the people of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Industrial area know that none of these ‘solutions’ will address their deteriorating environmental conditions. The massive air, water and noise pollution in the region […]
By Brendan Donegan When I studied chemistry in school I never imagined I would use those lessons like this. I have just finished creating a spreadsheet by inputting a vast set of data on the chemical content of hundreds of water samples gathered between 2007 and 2010. The samples were collected by the State Pollution […]
REGULAR MONITORING OF POLLUTION BY LOCALS TO CREATE PRESSURE ON PCB AND VIOLATORS Him Parivesh Environment Protection Society today convened a meeting under the leadership of Jagjit Singh Dukhiya to discuss matters related to gross violations of Pollution related norms in the Baddi Barotiwala Nalagarh Industrial Area. Specifically referring to the severe dust pollution by […]
Shimla: Greens are upbeat after the Himachal Pradesh High Court handed out what they term “environmental justice” by fining a corporate house Rs.100 crore for violating the law and fraudulently setting up a cement plant and a thermal power plant. Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. (JAL), a subsidiary of the JP Group, was last week slapped the […]
GREEN BENCH ORDERS DISMANTLING OF JAL’s THERMAL PLANT FINES JAYPEE 100 CRORES AS DAMAGES FOR INDULGING IN BLATANT FALSEHOODS CONSTITUTES SPECIAL INVESTIGATING TEAM (SIT) TO IDENTIFY PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO CONNIVED WITH JAYPEE The Shimla High Court Green Bench headed by Justice Deepak Gupta and Sanjay Karol on 4th May 2012 passed a path breaking judgement […]
Concerned over the issue of toxicity and varying nature of the effluents let-off by various industrial units in the Baddi-Barotiwala industrial area by the 990 industries, a local NGO Himparivesh today expressed concern whether the Rs 56.80-crore Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) being set up under the Public-Private-Partnership mode would address this critical issue effectively. […]
Baddi, June 14 With a recent report of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) detecting alarming levels of critical volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the industrial area of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) alarm bells have started ringing for people residing in the area. These chemicals which also include cancer emitting carcinogens have enhanced the risk of locals […]
An independent monitoring report released by the local environmental NGO Himparivesh and Community Environmental Monitoring Campaign has implicated two cement plants in the Nalagarh area of emitting hazardous pollutants in the air. The lives and the health of people living in their vicinity have been put to grave risk, the report has revealed. The reports of […]