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Environmental activists, write to Stalin

Environmental activists, write to Stalin
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Stop Vedanta’s unit from reopening, scrap highway projects and nuclear plants are their demands
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Stop Vedanta’s unit from reopening, scrap highway projects and nuclear plants are their demands
Various organisations and prominent personalities, including director Vetrimaran, actor Vijay Sethupathi, former Madras High Court judge (retd) D. Hariparanthaman, have written to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister-designate M.K. Stalin to not allow the Vedanta copper smelter unit to be reopened, scrap the Chennai-Salem 8-lane highway project and the additional four proposed Kudankulam nuclear plants, among other environment-related issues.
They also requested the CM-designate to prosecute the directors of the Vedanta copper smelter unit, scrap the Adani port expansion at Kattupalli, the Kanniyakumari International Container Terminal, the Chittoor-Thachur 6-lane expressway, and withdraw the AIADM ....

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How a retired Indian professor took on a mining giant – and won

Thoothukudi, India – She spearheaded a decades-long campaign against a copper smelter over alleged environmental contamination in the south Indian seaside town of Thoothukudi.
Sterlite Copper, the Indian subsidiary of Vedanta Resources, a global mining and metals conglomerate, was forced to shut its plant in 2018, thanks to a sustained and spirited fight led by 67-year-old teacher-turned activist Fatima Babu.
The plant’s shuttering, said Fatima, “has boosted the morale of the townspeople, which is a very very big thing for us”. “But we would want Sterlite to pay for the damage it has done.”
On May 22, 2018, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Thoothukudi against a proposed expansion of Sterlite’s 400,000-tonne annual capacity smelter, but the police opened fire, killing at least 13 protesters. It was the deadliest environmental protest of the year in the country. The police justified their action saying the protesters pelted stones and ....

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