 So far only the ONGC a public sector undertaking is Involved in the process of hydrocarbon extraction Is this organization following the standard operating procedure laid for extraction process? No, I ONGC so far. They are involved only in the conventional wells They are having a lot of wells numbers are not known exactly In the Kaveri basin for extraction of natural gas particularly But they are not involved in the non-conventional hydrocarbon at all They considered all these things as a minor resources and it is not Visible for ONGC to get involved in this minor resources So they are not ready to invest their money in this resources So government has gone to private parties Even among the private parties the parties which will be ready to do this kind of minor resources are not the usual The known the giants in the island gas sector What we know as the seven sisters like ExxonMobil, BP, Shell and all they are not interested in these small resources That too involving this much of problems So government has gone on other one step more and they are inviting people even without experience in the island gas sector No, the problem multiplies when it becomes it is open to anybody and the tender which they issued for this what they call as hydrocarbon is actually Unconventional hydrocarbon It says specifically prior experience is not required And we cannot find a tender document published anywhere in the world By any government which says a prior experience is not required But as anybody else is not ready to come They are trying to bring people who are close to them politically to do this work the Company which has quoted which got and which is not going to do now It is a company which never ever done any work in oil field Forget about natural oil even vegetable oil. They are not done. It's a there's only a marketing agency somehow those people are pulled in and they were given the License to do the project but because of the opposition That project didn't go in time. So they have withdrawn Though they have withdrawn government has not withdrawn the project So now they are trying to come back again by other names and now They have changed the rules and changed the policies So that now if they have given if they have given a license the license will be good enough for doing Any extraction so they need not be confined to any particular type of hydrocarbon So it is known as a ELB that area exploration licensing policy that one particular area will be given to the private Operator and he can take whatever is there in the below the ground But give after giving this kind of license. So they are telling it is only a conventional hydrocarbon Which is a blot and lie. So they are going to take only Non-conventional unconventional Hydrocarbons which is shale oil or shale gas. So that is the reason why the government is slowly Making it to more and more attractive to the private properties And in this process, they are making it more and more dangerous and more and more opaque to the general public This is the reason why organizations like Tamil Nadu Saints Forum We are stepping in and we are making it clear to the public What they are calling by various names and what they are trying to do and what they can do in this area Which in our opinion is inappropriate and the cost what we will be paying For taking this meager resources Compared to the benefit what will be driving out of this extraction is Uncomparable. This is not and this is not only an economical. It is Determinous to the environment of this area And it is a determinous to the people who are involving in the agricultural activities So there are multiple reasons and multiple angles Because of which this project should be opposed And we are happy that the opposition is strong in that area. And I don't think today They will be able to enforce that project on the people of Kaviri Delta and Tanjavur district or in other areas related to that in Kadalore, Puducherry and other areas So that's the story. So the allocation of exploration license to the new policy AELP The Vedanda group has also been Allocated with certain areas for exploration with the track record of what we know about Vedanda Do you feel that it will be safe for the people of Kaviri basin to proceed with such kind of a company? No, that's a problem. That's a problem. Now At least the earlier company from Karnataka, they don't have a track record in the high technology sector Now Vedanda has a very bad track record concerning environment and concerning their interference in the Political and administrative affairs of the country in the state So people have to be doubly careful When the name of Vedanda is looming large and the horizon So already whoever is doing this unconventional island gas exploration extraction The problems are severe Even if it is YNGC whom we can say comparatively much more conscious about the Environment and the people and the area in which they are operating They themselves should not do. This is what our stand is If it is a private sector Operator, then we have to be extremely careful. We should not allow. I mean what is there to be careful And if it is Vedanda, it is much more serious of our considering their track record Especially the starlight all over the world. There are copper plants nowhere in the world the Pollution levels are like what they have done in Tutugorin And it is not a slippage or something like that which has happened over to one point of time they were very very I mean cunningly for many many years. They have done it knowing very well So they with the kind of track record, which they have In a process in an industry where it is possible to curtail the In our problems curtail the environmental Issues, they've not done it. Now. This is an area where even a well-meaning company like YNGC You can say even they cannot control the damages themselves So that being the case if it is sterlite It should not be allowed at all and I don't think people will allow in that area