The people surrounding the Vedanta Alumina Project at Lanjigarh narrowly avoided a disaster on 5th April 2011. A crack developed in the dam holding back the company’s toxic red mud waste pond after a 45 …
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Red mud spill at Vedanta plant
Vedanta’s children are literally getting “peanuts”
It was once dubbed “Food for Work” by the Indian government.
Since 2005, its more sophisticated version – the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) – supposedly guarantees 100 days of manual employment for every …
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Indian Supreme Court agrees to hear Orissa’s plea against Centre on Vedanta
The Indian Supreme Court has agreed to hear an Orissa government plea challenging the Centre’s decision to cancel environmental clearance given to Vedanta bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills.
A bench headed by Justice P …
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Vedanta allegedly brands tribal opponents “terrorists”
An extremely serious allegation has been made against UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc. The company is accused of sponsoring a briefing to para-militaries, employed to “safeguard” its aluminium operations in Orissa, where they were told to …
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Vedanta Aluminium to raise over 2.2 billion pounds for Orissa project
Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Aluminium is in the process of raising Rs 16000 crore (160 billion rupees, just over £2.2 billion) for its aluminium project in Orissa, sources with direct knowledge said. Another source said the …
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Orissa Mining Corporation seeks speedy hearing of Niyamgiri Hills case
Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC), the mining body of the Orissa government, was planning to appeal in the Supreme Court on Monday for speedy hearing of its case it filed against the ministry of environment and …
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Niyamgiri tribals vow to oppose bauxite mining
With sacrificial blood stained rice in their hands tribals took ritualistic vow at the top of Niyamgiri hill in Kalahandi district in the Indian state of Orissa to lay down their lives to protect their …
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Vedanta in a spin as it digs hole for itself
Ah, the desperate whiff of worried PRs. London-listed mining giant Vedanta Resources had a bruising encounter with tribal rights charity Survival International last year.
Now, says the charity, “it appears that Vedanta has sent down …
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Indian court reserves verdict on Vedanta plea
The Orissa High Court concluded hearing on the petition filed by Vedanta Aluminium Company Ltd challenging the Centre’s withdrawal of permission for expansion of its Lanjigarh aluminium refinery from 1 to 6 MTPA and also …
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MoEF shoots down Vedanta expansion plan
The Indian ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has informed the Orissa high court that the application by Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL) for expansion of its Lanjigarh refinery cannot be considered at all as the …
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Agarwal’s juggernaut rolls on regardless
- if not through the fields of Academe
India’s home-grown, but foreign-fed, mining supremo Anil Agarwal never lets the opportunity slip to postpone the (almost) inevitable. His UK-listed company, Vedanta, backed by the Orissa state …
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Will BHP Billiton’s shameful Indonesian mining legacy finally be addressed?
In 1860 a Dutch company secured “rights” to mine tin from two of the largest deposits of their kind, on the Indonesian tropical islands of Bangka and Belitung. That company – Billiton – didn’t withdraw …
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