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Coca-Cola still faces pollution disputes in India

Published: 24 April, 2010, 06:27
Edited: 06 July, 2010, 11:49


AFP Photo / Tengku Bahar

Six years after Coca-Cola’s bottling plant shut down in India’s southern state of Kerala, the company continues to face allegations claiming it caused the depletion of groundwater and polluted the water resources.

 
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Rene Kintanar July 06, 2010, 03:57 quote
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I live in a residential subdivision just a wall away from the Coca-cola bottling plant. Most often we smell a very bad odor coming from the industrial plant. In our house, I noticed that almost all of us suffer from headache, cough and sticky phlegm very often. I would like to seek assistance on what kind of pollutants are commonly found, and how bad it is for the people living in that area, specially if their waste management disposal is not being monitored properly by the implementing government institutions. I know full well that these giant corporations are difficult to deal with, that is why I need people, group to help us solve the problem of pollution in our residential subdivision and nearby residential houses. Thank you!

Padraig March 29, 2012, 03:18 quote
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Hello Rene

I'm very sad and sorry to hear, a racist corporation like Coca Cola has polluted your village.

There are some advice I can give you. You have to tell people, to stop drinking those evil-Western carbonated drinks (Coca Cola, Pepsi, and other Carbonated drinks), because they can cause obesity (make people fat and unhealthy).

Find an alternative source of pure clean, flouride-free and drinkable water. Just drink water from a bottle. It is very sad to learn, the farmers cannot grow any crops, feed themselves and also cannot become self-sufficient, as they used to be, more than 15-years ago.

You have to understand there are sick and evil inhumane people who contol governments and royalty, that run and rule this planet and they do not like people in poor countries like India to be self-sufficient and self-reliant. They want countries like India to be dependent on their Imperialist western master. They want India to be dependent on Foreign Aid and to have your countrys economy in debt and they want to take India natural resources away from your country.

Please educate yourself and share information with your friends and family, before it is too late. India like other countries near and far, rich and poor, are being murdered in many and various different ways. Without trying to frighten you, the evil powers that rule this planet, want to reduce the global population of the world by 80 to 90%. India is the second largest populated country in the world, behind China.

The only other option for those families who live near the Coca Cola plant, is to be moved away to another location, where you can grow crops and sell them to feed families.

Indians have to learn how to solve their own problems, but not expect outsiders to help them.

Corporations are an incurable cancerous tumor, not only to India, but to the whole world. Corporations do not care about ordinary people like you and me.

But remember one thing - your own government in New Delhi, is not a genuine government. It is a fake/puppet/dummy government, like all the governments in every country. They are all controlled by an evil master and they follow the orders. Don't forget, Manmohan Singh might be your country's Prime Minister, but he is just on show in public, but in private, he is just following orders.

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