With summer, Kerala’s forests are facing the risk of massive fires again. At times prescribed or controlled burning goes out of hand. Despite its best efforts, the Forest department struggles to control the fire’s fury on time. The result is serious environmental damage. Not just in terms of the flora and fauna lost, but also […]
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In Palakkad and Malappuram districts, endowed with highly sensitive and protected forest zones, forest fires are fought with fire-breaks or fire-belts and counter-fires. Source link
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Fire and Rescue services personnel toiling to put out the smoke billowing from the smouldering garbage at Brahmapuram waste treatment plant where the garbage caught fire. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The Fire and Rescue Services department is set to submit a proposal on measures to be taken at the Kochi Corporation’s solid waste treatment […]
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The first meeting of the monitoring committee formed in the wake of the Brahmapuram fire outbreak early this month met on Wednesday and decided to install more fire hydrants and LED lights at the waste treatment plant. The road leading to the plant will be widened for smooth passage of bigger vehicles including fire tenders. […]
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Opposition UDF is expected to continue protest in the Kerala Assembly today. File picture | Photo Credit: ANI Here are the important developments from Kerala to watch out for today: Opposition UDF to continue protest in the Kerala Assembly today. Discussion on demands for grants in the budget for irrigation, Transport, Agriculture, water supply and […]
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Smoke from the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant enveloped Kochi for days. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat The March 2 fire at Brahmapuram was not the first at the waste processing plant — a euphemism for a sprawling 110-acre open dumping yard with a failed windrow composting facility and a yet-to-begin waste-to-energy plant. The yard has […]
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On the evening of March 2, heaps of plastic refuse stacked as high as multi-storey buildings at the solid-waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram in Kochi went up in flames. At least since 2019, the plant, run by the City Corporation, has been seeing such episodes of fire, raging for two or three days before being […]
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The Kochi Corporation must be disbanded since it has abysmally failed in most counts, mainly in tackling the garbage menace, activists of various NGOs under the banner of ‘conclave of former KSU members’ have said. Addressing the media here on Saturday, Sajan Mannaly, a lawyer by profession, alleged that the civic body had also failed […]
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File photo of fire force personnel spraying water to quell the smoke at Brahmapuram waste treatment plant in Kochi. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal has imposed an environment compensation of ₹100 crore on Kochi Corporation for its continuing neglect of duties, resulting in the crisis at its […]
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Fire and Rescue Services personnel dousing the fire that broke out at the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal on Friday held the Kerala government responsible for the massive fire at the Brahmapuram dump site of the Kochi Corporation on March 2 while […]
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