Green tribunal issues notices to Tidco, regarding PCPIR

02-Dec-13

The National Green Tribunal has issued notices to the department of chemicals and petrochemicals and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (Tidco) to give clarification on the status of the petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment region project (PCPIR) and posted the case to December 11 for further hearing. The tribunal passed the order to issue notices after the counsel appearing for T Murugandam, former president of Killai panchayat, pleaded with the tribunal to cancel the environment clearance granted by the Union ministry of environment and forests to Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL & FS) for its 3,600MW coal-based power plant at Chidambaram in Cuddalore district. The counsel contended that though IL & FS prepared the cumulative environmental impact assessment (EIA) declaring that it had given up the PCPIR, the said project is still on and will have an additional impact on environment, life and health of the people near the project site.IL & FS claimed that the PCPIR project was only conceived and not implemented. The ministry gave clearance to IL & FS based on EIA, which does outline the cumulative impact of the project.