Sterlite Thoothukudi plant: TN to approach SC against NGT order

The Tamil Nadu government will appeal in the Supreme Court against the verdict of the country’s green court National Green Tribunal (NGT) favouring the reopening of the Sterlite Copper plant at Thoothukudi, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami said at Omalur near here on Saturday.
Speaking to presspersons, Mr. Palaniswami said that the State had ordered the permanent closure of Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper Plant over alleged pollution charges after the violent protests in May.
The Company moved the NGT against the order of the Tamil Nadu government and the Tribunal has given its verdict, the Chief Minister said adding that “the State government will move the Supreme Court against the NGT verdict setting aside its order to close the Copper Smelter Plant permanently”.

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