Visakhapatnam Police arrested 12 people associated with LG Polymer Company in connection with gas leakage on July 07. The gas leakage took place on May 7.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) said on Wednesday that LG Polymers has absolute liability for the loss of life in the recent gas leak incident at its Visakhapatnam plant, and directed the Rs 50 crore penalty imposed on it to be used as compensation to the victims and for environment restoration.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed 30 employees of LG Polymers India Ltd to supervise "round-the-clock safety measures" at its sealed plant in Visakhapatnam, where a gas leak early this month killed 12 people.
The High Court has sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government that why was the styrene monomer permitted to be transported to South Korea, about a week after the incident.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a plea by LG Polymers seeking stay on the order passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which formed a five-member committee to assess the damage and conduct a probe into the Vizag gas leak.
A team of around eight members from South Korea arrived at Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam on May 13.
Vizag gas leak: LG Chemicals' spokesman Choi Sang-kyu said that the company had always followed laws and had operated the plant based on the guidance of the officials, both at the state and federal levels. He said the affidavit was a pledge to comply with the law in the future and not an admission of any violations.
LG Polymers India Ltd on Saturday blamed leaking vapour from a storage tank for the leakage of deadly styrene monomer gas at its Visakhapatnam plant that killed at least 11 people and forced the evacuation of thousands.
While speaking to ANI in the national capital on May 08, the Director General (DG) of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), SN Pradhan spoke on Visakhapatnam gas leak tragedy.
"There are some rumours and media reports about a second leakage. I categorically clarify that it is not true," NDRF Director-General SN Pradhan said in a video message.
Over 60 per cent of the styrene vapour that leaked from a tank in LG Polymers near Visakhapatnam on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, has polymerized so far and all chemical tanks in the plant are safe, District Collector V Vinay Chand said on Friday.
A day after gas leak incident in its Visakhapatnam plant, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed LG Polymers to forthwith deposit an initial amount of Rs. 50 crore with Visakhapatnam district magistrate.
A large number of people decided to sleep outside their houses due to fear over May 7 gas leak incident.
Gas fumes were reported to be leaking again from the tanker where there was Styrene leakage earlier on Thursday. "Around 50 fire staffers, with NDRF's support, are carrying out operation. We've ordered evacuation of villages in 2-3 km radius.
Vizag gas leak: The fresh incident in Visakhapatnam was reported late on Thursday. Fumes were seen billowing out of the chemical plant, where the gas leakage in the early hours of the day affected over 300 others.
Now, several Bollywood and Tollywood celebrities have described the gas leak at a chemical plant in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam as 'another disaster of 2020'.
A six-year-old is among the seven people who have lost their lives after inhaling poisonous gas leaked from LG Polymers plant at RR Venkatapuram, Gopalapatnam, Visakhapatnam, early on Thursday. More than a hundred were taken ill and being treated at King George and a government hospital in Gopalapatnam. Here's the latest from Vizag gas leak tragedy:
PM Modi on Thursday took stock of the situation in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam where a gas leak from a chemical plant has left 11 dead, and assured all possible assistance to state Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The gas leak from a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, which killed at least 11 people and impacted about 1,000, needs to be fully investigated by local authorities, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.
The National Green Tribunal on Thursday took cognisance on its own about the Visakhapatnam gas leak incident killing at least 11 people and impacting about 1,000, many collapsing to the ground as they tried to escape the toxic vapours.
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