More than two weeks after Hindustan Lever Limited started cleaning up the mercury waste left inside its closed thermometer factory premises at Kodaikanal, the controversy over the alleged damage wreaked by the MNC on the hill ecosystem and its people refuses to die down. While the MNC claims that the clean up and site remediation will be done according to Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board protocol, activists like Green Peace International and the Palani Hill conservation Committee continue to be wary, especially as the latter had 'lied' earlier on several counts.