#EnnoreGasLeak: 67.6 tonnes of ammonia is estimated to have leaked from the pipeline of Coromandel on Dec 26. As per the technical committee, #CycloneMichaung caused boulders along the sea to move, possibly damaging the pipeline ++ @THChennai
The damage was reportedly not noticed by the firm and its marine divers when they visually inspected the undersea pipeline on Dec 23. The ammonia pipeline is kept at 2kg/cm2 vapour pressure when not in use; safety checks are carried once a year up to 6kg/cm2. ++
Dec 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#EnnoreGasLeak has been happening not in the last 10 or 20 years. Dug up @the_hindu archives and found the 1st reported incident from forty two years ago, in 1981! @diparamakrishna @THChennai (1/n) 🧵
Link: thehindu.com/news/cities/ch…
In an article in @the_hindu titled ‘How pure is the air around Manali’ published Jun 29, 1986, a teacher was quoted as saying that even regular work leaves him exhausted & it was not the case until some yrs back when #Manali was far less industrially congested. 37 yrs ago! ++