Sterlite Copper-Should the Plant be Reopened?
| Case Code: BENV051 Case Length: 16 Pages Period: 2000-2018 Pub Date: 2024 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.400 Organization: Public company Industry: Chemicals Countries: India Themes: Business Ethics, Disclosure and Transparency, Ethical Decision Making |
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Introduction
P Ramnath (Ramnath), CEO of India-based Sterlite Copper (Sterlite) , was standing in front of Sterlite’s 400,000 per annum copper smelter and associated facilities at Thoothukudi (also called Tuticorin) in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu braving the hot Indian summer. What bothered him more than the scorching heat was the fact that he was not able to enter the facilities he had managed until a few days earlier, as they had been shut down by an order of the court in May 2018. The order had followed an instruction issued by the Environment and Forest Department of the State for their permanent closure.
The closure was the result of the killing of 13 persons in police firing at an anti-Sterlite rally, where protestors damaged public property. The rally, comprising 20,000 people, was organized to mark 100 days of peaceful protests against the proposed doubling of copper production to 800,000 tons per year. The locals had alleged that untreated effluents and unsustainable disposal of copper slag, gypsum, and other life-threatening waste products led to air, water, and soil contamination, affecting their health and livelihoods.
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