A week after Greenpeace volunteers held a candle-light protest in Colaba against the upcoming Dhamra Port project in Orissa, the Dhamra Port Company Ltd (DPCL) hit back on Monday, stating that they had already replied to the concerns of environmentalists in great detail and that "the campaign (against DPCL) is malicious and personalised'. Releasing a 45-page presentation on the project, DPCL CEO S K Mohapatra said, "We are committed to sustainable development and have received all the clearances to construct the port. We are still open to anybody wanting to do a study on the site and the status of the Olive Ridley turtles found in the region.' Since 2005, Greenpeace protestors have been urging Tata to shift the upcoming port project from Dhamra in order to save the Olive Ridley sea turtles that have their nesting ground on the Gahirmatha beach there. However, the DPCL presentation indicated that the "opposition started only after the entry of Tata steel in the equation'. In an attempt to clear all concerns and misconceptions among the public, Mohapatra stated that an environment clearance for the port was obtained under the CRZ notification. "Being an area already notified as a port, the clearance was granted by the Empowered Committee for Environmental Clearance of the Ministry of Surface Transport.' he said, adding that the original Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) has been supplemented by additional studies and reports. Mohapatra added that aside from the standard government clearances, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA), an institution of appeal constituted under the NEAA Act of 1997 also visited the site and upheld the environment clearance after observing that the area between the low tide line and high tide line in the site is of clay and very sticky