Dhamra Port, Firoz Krishna[edit]

The Port of Dhamara has received significant coverage, sparking controversy in India, and in

Tata's emerging global markets.[39] The Dhamra port, an equal joint venture between Tata Steel
and Larsen & Toubro, has been criticised for its proximity to the Gahirmatha Sanctuary
and Bhitarkanika National Park by Indian and international organisations,
including Greenpeace; Gahirmatha Beach is one of the world's largest mass nesting sites for
the olive ridley turtle, and India's second largest mangrove forest, Bhitarkanika, is a
designated Ramsar site, and critics claimed that the port could disrupt mass nesting at
Gahirmtha beaches as well as the ecology of the Bitharkanika mangrove forest.[40][41] TATA Steel
employed mitigation measures set by the project's official advisor, the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the company pledging to "adopt all its recommendations
without exception" when conservation organisations asserted that a thorough environmental
impact analysis had not been done for the project, which had undergone changes in size and
specifications since it was first proposed.[42]

Proposed soda extraction plant in Tanzania[edit]

In 2007, Tata Group joined forces with a Tanzanian company to build a soda ash extraction plant
in Tanzania.[43] Environmental activists oppose the plant because it would be near Lake Natron,
and it has a very high chance of affecting the lake's ecosystem and its neighbouring dwellers,
[44]
 jeopardising endangered lesser flamingo birds. Lake Natron is where two-thirds of lesser
flamingos reproduce.[45] Producing soda ash involves drawing out salt water from the lake, and
then disposing the water back to the lake. This process could interrupt the chemical makeup of
the lake.[43] 22 African nations signed a petition to stop its construction.[43]