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PRESS RELEASE 1st August 2015 Public mobilisation group Jhatkaa.org, ex-mercury workers association, and the Chennai Solidarity Group question Unilever CEO Paul Polman’s silence after a rap video went viral calling out his company’s mercury contamination of Kodaikanal. The organisations urged Polman and Hindustan Unilever CEO and Managing Director Sanjiv Mehta to initiate immediate action. BANGALORE/CHENNAI […]

PRESS RELEASE 31st July 2015 Social activists expose Unilever and CEO Paul Polman’s hypocrisy with spoof of Nicki Minaj’s ‘Anaconda’ song. 30 July, 2015. CHENNAI — Having reached its target of 5000 signatures in less than a week, a petition hosted by online campaigning platform Jhatkaa.org urging Unilever to settle the company’s mercury-related liabilities in […]

PRESS RELEASE 10th August 2015   CHENNAI — Welcoming the press release by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board that the delay is caused by Unilever and not the TNPCB, activists with Chennai Solidarity Group urged TNPCB to ensure that the Detailed Project Report is commissioned by the Board and not Unilever. “This is what […]

PRESS RELEASE 6th August 2015   While welcoming Unilever CEO Paul Polman’s tweet expressing his determination to address the issues in Kodaikanal, Chennai Solidarity Group said Unilever needs to shed its double standards with respect to environmental remediation for the matter to be resolved expeditiously. Unilever is putting pressure on Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board […]

Cuddalore, 15 June 2015: In yet another accident at IL&FS thermal power plant site an engineer was reported dead while on duty. According to the sources, the accident took place on 14 June 2015. 30 year old Arunkumar , Jegaveera pandiyan, from Villipuram, was working as an engineer at the site.   On 14th June […]

Cuddalore, 14 June 2015: One migrant worker died in an accident during the construction of the IL&FS power plant in Cuddalore. According to sources the accident took place on 13th June 2015, when Surender, a migrant worker from Jharkhand, got stuck inside the cement mixer machine when a coworker un-knowingly switched it on. Surender was […]

PRESS RELEASE 23 August 2015   Chennai, India: Paul Polman’s claims that Kodaikanal lake cannot be polluted as mercury’s half life in soil is “just 60 days” is proof of Unilever’s unscientific and manipulative approach to a very serious environmental problem, said the Chennai Solidarity Group for Justice in Kodaikanal. “Mercury’s half life in soil […]