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Papua New Guinea gives green light to deep-sea mineral mine
Privatisation of the deep sea bed has already started, as companies move to exploit potentially highly valuable mineral deposits, lying up to 2 kms below the surface and spread over hundreds of square miles. But opposition to oceanic mining - from Indigenous Peoples...
US Court Orders Mediation in Rio Tinto Alien Tort Case
Nearly a decade into a court battle involving Rio Tinto and its alleged role in spurring civil war in Bougainville in the South Pacific, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is suggesting mediation. See...
Namibian mining sparks environmental concerns
Tourist operators are worried that a surge in uranium mining in the south-west African nation could cause environmental destruction and the loss of their livelihoods. London-based Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto is one of the companies involved. See the...
Dispute around Rio Tinto subsidiary's mine in Madagascar
QMM or QIT Madagascar Minerals stopped all activities on Tuesday, October 26, 2010. It occurred after the persisting roadblock set by the Fagnomba movement at Mandena. Despite Rio Tinto's promises of exemplary behaviour, clearly not everyone around its QMM...
Vedanta Hymn: The Scion’s Political Gambit
Rahul Gandhi claimed that he will represent the tribal people in Delhi’s power corridors. It is good that he has decided to raise the issue of displacement and dispossession of the people, their lands and forests but Niyamgiri is not just one exception. While Vedanta...
Vedanta gives Rs 10 crore bank guarantee to state pollution board
Keeping in line with the order of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has provided Rs OSPCB10 crore (100 million Rupees) bank guarantee to the Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) as a safeguard against...
Tribals rally against Vedanta Alumina project
Ethnic tribals of Niyamgiri area organised a rally against the Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district on Saturday. It was held at a juncture when the VAL and the Orissa government are contemplating to approach the Supreme Court against the...
ONGC may stall Cairn-Vedanta deal
If not for the government's opposition, flagship explorer ONGC would have bought the prolific oilfields in Rajasthan's Barmer district in 2004 for just $2.4 billion from Cairn India, which is now being taken over by NRI metals tycoon Anil Agarwal's London-listed...
Sesa Goa plans Rs 30,000 cr foray into steel
Vedanta Group firm Sesa Goa is planning an investment of over Rs 30,000 crore (300 billion Rupees, around 4.2 billion pounds sterling) in the steel space in Orissa and Jharkhand and may rope in a global company to jointly run the ventures, the company said. "We have...
Marching against GCM Resources
PRESS RELEASE HUMAN CHAIN TO PROTEST OPEN-PIT MINING IN PHULBARI LONDON, 30 October 2010 - A human chain forming event has been observed in Altab Ali Park in East London on the 29th October 2010 to express solidarity with the Bangladeshi people's movement against...