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 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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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT Taking a leaf out of the Brahmapuram crisis, the government will roll out an action plan for evolving an effective waste management mechanism across the State on a war footing, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the State Assembly. The State will seek international expertise in solid […]
Continue ReadingKerala Legislative Assembly Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) opposition unleashed an impassioned attack against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government for “shielding politically influential contractors who heartlessly jeopardised the health of eight lakh Kochi residents by setting fire to the plastic garbage hill at Brahmapuram to cover up their abject failure to dispose of the […]
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Fire and rescue personnel trying to douse the fire inside the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant on March 4 2023. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat A crisis meeting chaired by Chief Secretary V.P. Joy has urged citizens to stay indoors and ordered hospitals to prepare for emergency admission of patients with respiratory distress as the three-day-old […]
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