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The Tamizhaga Cauvery Farmers Association connected Thursday (October 2) staged a accelerated astatine Mannargudi, urging the DMK authorities to clarify its argumentation connected extraction of fossil substance from the delta region.
Talking to the media astatine the objection venue, relation wide caput P. R. Pandian outlined the struggles/demonstrations organised by the delta farmers/farmers associations, arsenic and erstwhile attempts were made by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation to pat methane/shale state reserves successful the delta districts successful the past.
Pointing retired that the contiguous authorities had besides withdrawn its announcement of declaring the Nagapattinam country arsenic ‘petro chemic zone’, made by it successful 2021, pursuing stiff protests from the delta farming community, Mr. Pandian said that contempt each the efforts of the farming assemblage to support cultivation operations successful the delta region, the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas connected its authoritative website had announced that the inspection workout to pat methane/shale state astatine Mannargudi, Periyakudi, Arivasanallur areas had been completed and kept pending.
Stating that this had caused fearfulness among the farmers that ONGC mightiness execute its extremity of converting the greenish delta portion into a petro chemic extraction zone, helium sought a clarification connected the contented from the DMK government.
