Kaveri delta coal-bed methane project From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kaveri delta coal-bed methane extraction project is currently undertaken by Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd (GEECL), a private company based in Gurgaon, Haryana.[1] The project aims to extract methane gas from coal-bed using environmentally destructive method of hydraulic fracturing in the Kaveri river basin. The company received license to explore and extract CBM from NAGAPATTNAM Thanjavur and THIRUVARUR districts which are the major rice cultivating area of Tamil Nadu.[1] Farmers, environmentalist and experts are opposing the project and hence it is currently suspended by the Government of Tamil Nadu.[2][3] Contents [hide] 1 Project details and approval 2 Environmental impact and oppositions 3 Current status 4 References Project details and approval[edit] On July 29, 2010 GEECL won CBM-IV type license in a biding to explore and extract methane gas and coal deposit in Mannarkudi block of Thrivarur district in the Kaveri basin from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. Subsequently then the DMK government of Tamil Nadu issued petroleum exploration license (PEL) for area covering 667 km2 comprising NAGAPATTNAM Thanjavur and THIRUVARUR districts.[4] The company has a plan to drill 500 million production wells of 500–1500 ft deep in the ground.[1] In September 2012 the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests (uMOEF) issued environmental clearance to the project.[5] Environmental impact and oppositions[edit] From the time the public become aware of this project, it is fervently opposed by the farmers of Kaveri delta region as well as agricultural and environmental experts. Organic farming expert G. Nammalvar was spearheading the opposition until his death due to brief illness in the demonstration field.[6] Current status[edit] Present ADMK government of Tamil Nadu temporarily suspended the project citing issues raised by the farmer.[7] Also the Tamil Nadu government constituted an expert committee comprising representatives from Anna University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, and officials from the Public Works Department, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corp.[3
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