Govt bans import, use of asbestos

KATHMANDU, DEC 24 – The government has banned the import, purchase and use of carcinogenic mineral fibre asbestos, which is used as construction material, saying that it is causing serious public health complications. The Ministry of Science, Technology and...

FORGOTTEN ASBESTOS MINE SICKENS INDIAN VILLAGERS

RORO VILLAGE, India (AP) — Asbestos waste spills in a gray gash down the flank of a lush green hill above tribal villages that are home to thousands in eastern India. Three decades after the mines were abandoned, nothing has been done to remove the enormous,...

Report: Dire Conditions in Indian Shipbreaking Yards

Report by Indian research institute reveals poor enforcement of occupational health and safety provisions The working and living conditions at the shipbreaking yards of Alang, India, remain alarmingly poor, argues a new study published in the Economic & Political...

Asbestos revealed as Canada’s top cause of workplace death

Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada, accounting for more than a third of total workplace death claims approved last year and nearly a third since 1996, new national data obtained by The Globe and Mail show. The 368 death claims last...

Nagaland Coal Mining – A Concern

(LEFT): One of the coal mining tunnels through which miners can eventually go down 400 feet even. (CENTRE): Water bodies in the mining areas get rapidly destroyed due to Acid Mine Drainage, which refers to the out flow of acidic water from coal mines. (RIGHT): Mining...