An Orissa police chief has declared that Vedanta’s Balco subsidiary deliberately mislead the public, when reporting on September’s chimney collapse at the Korba alumininum complex. The disaster killed over forty – and possibly substantially more …
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Vedanta report “designed to hamper” disaster investigations, says police chief
Chhattisgarh police question Chinese engineers in Balco disaster
Chhattisgarh police have interrogated several Chinese engineers employed by Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO) at Korba town to probe the Sep 23 collapse of an under-construction power plant chimney that killed 45 workers.
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Vedanta: another “mishap”, more workers up in arms
Just a month before a massive chimney collapse killed at least 45 workers at Vedanta’s Korba power plant in Chhattisgarh, another “mishap” struck the company’s Mt Lyell copper mine in Tasmania, Australia. Many tonnes of …
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Culprit company announces huge expansion of Goa mines
Not to be out-manoeuvred by adverse publicity attaching to its abject failure to protect workers in Chhattisgarh, UK-listed Vedanta has announced a massive expansion of its parlous iron ore mining in Goa and elsewhere in …
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London Calling the shots on Vedanta – and some British banks
There seem to be few new tactics that may be adopted in the seemingly interminable battle to force mining companies into being both honest and just. However, on September 22nd, what some have described as …
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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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Korba’s Killing Field
Stop Press: According to Agence France Press (14.30 pm GMT) more than a hundred are now feared to have died in this disaster, with dozens more bodies still to be accounted for.
At least thirty …
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Vedanta AGM report
Vedanta plc held its annual shareholders’ meeting a month ago. The following report summarises the issues raised at the meeting, and the responses from the company.
Concerns raised at the Vedanta plc AGM, Monday 27 …
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Vedanta damned
In June 2009, the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) met to finally consider an application, first made in 2007 by UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc, for a major expansion …
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