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The Kaveri delta coal-bed methane extraction project is currently undertaken by Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd (GEECL), a private company based in Gurgaon, Haryana.[1] The project aims to extract methane gas from coal-bed using hydraulic fracturing method of hydraulic fracturing in the Kaveri river basin. The company received licence to explore and extract CBM from Nagapattinam, Thanjavur and Thiruvarur districts which are the major rice cultivating area of Tamil Nadu. Farmers, environmentalist and experts are opposing the project and hence it is currently suspended by the Government of Tamil Nadu.