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The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has informed the confederate seat of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it followed owed process successful levying ₹54.45 lakh arsenic biology compensation connected Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (CPCL). The punishment was imposed for exceeding emanation standards betwixt April 2019 and December 2020, based connected recorded data.
The affidavit stated that the exceedances were observed successful the stack emissions of CPCL’s Diesel Hydro De-Sulphurisation (DHDS) works successful Manali done the Online Continuous Emission Monitoring System. The Board issued a show-cause announcement successful August 2021, followed by a idiosyncratic proceeding successful February 2024, earlier directing the institution successful March 2024 to remit the compensation nether Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
CPCL, a nationalist assemblage undertaking of Indian Oil Corporation, filed an entreaty against this direction. The NGT granted an interim enactment successful April 2025, connected the information that the institution deposit 50% of the full biology compensation levied crossed its 5 divisions — amounting to ₹3.11 crore — wrong six weeks. The affidavit confirmed that this magnitude had been deposited with the TNPCB.
The Board stated that CPCL’s petition to reconsider the penalty, citing instrumentality faults and momentary works disturbances arsenic the origin of exceedances, could not beryllium accepted. It added that the NGT had earlier termed the existing Central Pollution Control Board protocol for emanation exceedance “very liberal” and had directed its revision.
According to the TNPCB, permitting emissions beyond prescribed limits could harm aerial prime and nationalist health. The full biology compensation levied connected CPCL crossed its Manali facilities amounts to ₹6.23 crore.
