KERALA - DUBIOUS DEVELOPMENT - PETROCHEMICALS COMPLEX AT CHEEMENI

Authors
RAMACHANDRAN K
Citation
K. Ramachandran, KERALA - DUBIOUS DEVELOPMENT - PETROCHEMICALS COMPLEX AT CHEEMENI, Economic and political weekly, 33(1-2), 1998, pp. 14-15
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science","Planning & Development
Journal title
Economic and political weekly → ACNP
ISSN journal
00129976
Volume
33
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
14 - 15
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-9976(1998)33:1-2<14:K-DD-P>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
The proposal to set up a huge petrochemicals complex in a green, water -rich and fertile region of Kerala with tie-ups with several TNCs, is being rushed through with unseemly haste. Little information an the pr ocesses has been made available to the public nor has there been a pro per scientific assessment of the potential environmental consequences of the plant.