Following concerns about the track record of the UK-based Vedanta Resources, the Indian Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in Delhi has asked for a review of the company’s past performance in India’s mining and power sectors …
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With the chimney collapse began the downfall
Vedanta’s Reputational Collapse
UK film-maker, Simon Chambers, last month visited Korba town in India’s Chhattisgarh state which, in late 2009, suffered one of the country’s worst recent industrial catastrophes. He discovered there was more to this “natural disaster” …
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Vedanta rebuff in Chhattisgarh
Villagers of one of India’s most-impoverished areas broke down at a public hearing held here and asked Vedanta Resources officials to “kill them now rather than forcibly trying to take over their land”.
The mandatory …
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UK COMPANY VEDANTA’S INDIAN DISASTER
Press release from London Mining Network : Update 1
25 September 2009
No firm death and injury count is yet available relating to victims of the September 23rd disaster at UK-listed Vedanta’s power plant construction …
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Further coverage of Vedanta disaster
Vedanta under scrutiny as 100 feared dead at aluminium plant
The safety policies of the London-listed mining giant Vedanta Resources are set to come under scrutiny after an accident at one of its sites in …
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