Monday, 10 October 2011
The Chennai Port Trust has asked the Madras high court for an extension of deadline by six months to shift its handling of coal and iron ore to Ennore Port. The move
comes five months after the Madras HC banned Chennai port from handling dusty cargo from October 1.
A review petition in this regard has been filed before a divisional bench headed by justice Elipe Dharma Rao by the port trust explaining various measures taken involving several crores of rupees to minimise pollution levels in the vicinity of the port.
In its order on May 11, the divisional bench of justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Venugopal had said that a batch of its public interest petition highlighting the pollution caused by dusty cargo such as coal and iron ore in north Chennai cannot be ignored. The bench allowed the PIL and asked the port trust authorities to halt handling of dusty cargo immediately and not to accept any such cargo after October 1, which is the deadline to shift the cargo to Ennore port.
In its petition, the Chennai Port Trust said that among other things, 110 water sprinklers had been installed in the coal yard and on roads, and around 3-km of 8-metre-high windscreens had been erected along the roads surrounding the coal and iron ore stocks to prevent transmission of dust.
A bubble structure of about 10,000 square metres was set up at Rs 6 crore to store up to 50,000 tonnes of coal without increasing the level of pollutants. A 5-km semimechanised coal conveyor system at a cost of Rs 40 crore has been installed to contain the pollution to a great extent, the trust said in its petition.
Source: TNN
The Chennai Port Trust has asked the Madras high court for an extension of deadline by six months to shift its handling of coal and iron ore to Ennore Port. The move
comes five months after the Madras HC banned Chennai port from handling dusty cargo from October 1.
A review petition in this regard has been filed before a divisional bench headed by justice Elipe Dharma Rao by the port trust explaining various measures taken involving several crores of rupees to minimise pollution levels in the vicinity of the port.
In its order on May 11, the divisional bench of justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Venugopal had said that a batch of its public interest petition highlighting the pollution caused by dusty cargo such as coal and iron ore in north Chennai cannot be ignored. The bench allowed the PIL and asked the port trust authorities to halt handling of dusty cargo immediately and not to accept any such cargo after October 1, which is the deadline to shift the cargo to Ennore port.
In its petition, the Chennai Port Trust said that among other things, 110 water sprinklers had been installed in the coal yard and on roads, and around 3-km of 8-metre-high windscreens had been erected along the roads surrounding the coal and iron ore stocks to prevent transmission of dust.
A bubble structure of about 10,000 square metres was set up at Rs 6 crore to store up to 50,000 tonnes of coal without increasing the level of pollutants. A 5-km semimechanised coal conveyor system at a cost of Rs 40 crore has been installed to contain the pollution to a great extent, the trust said in its petition.
Source: TNN
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