ஹைட்ரோகார்பன் எடுக்க வேதாந்தா நிறுவனத்துக்கு வழங்கிய அனுமதியின் ஈரம் காய்வதற்குள் அதிமுக அரசு யாரை திருப்திபடுத்துவதற்காக இந்தச் சலுகையை...

DMK president M.K. Stalin condemned the Tamil Nadu government for petitioning the Union government to waive mandatory public environmental consultation hearings before executing major hydrocarbon extraction projects. Stalin stated that seeking exemptions immediately after New Delhi granted extensive exploration permits to multinational corporations like Vedanta thoroughly exposed the ruling regime's subservience to commercial conglomerates. He described implementing disruptive extractive projects without local citizen consent as the height of administrative arrogance.

Stalin highlighted the acute agricultural crisis prevailing across the Cauvery delta, widely revered as the rice bowl of Tamil Nadu. Intensive hydrocarbon exploration, deep exploratory drilling, and chemical fracking threaten to contaminate precious groundwater aquifers, degrade agricultural topsoil, and displace generational farming communities. He questioned why an elected state government was eager to appease corporate interests by stripping rural citizens of their statutory right to participate in environmental public hearings.

Reaffirming the DMK's total opposition to converting agrarian districts into industrial wastelands, Stalin demanded that the government immediately withdraw its controversial exemption plea. He asserted that any developmental scheme pushed through by suppressing public participation and devastating ecology would be met with resolute democratic resistance.