'ONGC Is Not Safeguarding Environment While Hydrocarbon Extraction'

The public sector company ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) has been involved in hydrocarbon projects in the Cauvery delta region of Tamil Nadu for many years.

The public sector company ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) has been involved in hydrocarbon projects in the Cauvery delta region of Tamil Nadu for many years. There are many instances of environmental disaster which happened due to the negligence of ONGC in various places. Vedanta Ltd will be having major stakes in the upcoming projects in the region, that too, for unconventional hydrocarbon extraction. In this context, NewsClick interviewed environmentalist Nityanand Jayaraman, who has studied the impact of ONGC projects in the delta region and has intervened for people's rights.