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SCMC Panel Slams Hindustan Lever With a Rs. 50 Crore Penalty for Mercury Pollution of Kodaikanal ; Invokes Polluter Pays Principle.

Feature story - October 8, 2004
CHENNAI, India — The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous waste (SCMC) has done it again. The Committee members clearly appalled at the state of the affairs at the Hindustan Lever’s now shut down Mercury thermometer factory plant at Kodaikanal have asked the TNPCB to collect a fine of Rs 50 crore from HLL as a revolving bank guarantee to undertake clean-up operations and to restore damaged and destroyed elements of environment by its thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, under the “Polluter Pays” principle. HLL has also been asked to set up health clinics to provide necessary facilities to enable genuinely affected people recover from the ill effects of mercury poisoning.
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Greenpeace activists and the local community demonstrate in front of the HLL thermometre factory in Kodaikanal, March 2001.

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The Greenpeace Campaign in Kodaikanal.

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