“The battle lines will be drawn indelibly between the people and the Corporates and it is anybody’s guess as to who will win.” So comments human rights activisit, M C Raj, as he reviews the …
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Vedanta: is Nyamgiri ruling a “revolutionary” moment for India’s poor?
India: Nyamgiri ruling “a great victory for indigenous rights”
In one of the longest-running – and certainly the most widely-publicised – of Indian struggles to halt a threatened mining venture, the community seems to have won. On Thursday, 18 April 2013, the country’s Supreme …
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Vedanta faces India’s Green Tribunal over smelter disaster
India’s Supreme Court has fined Vedanta’s Sterlite subsidiary US$18.4 million for polluting water, soil, and air around its Tuticorin copper smelter in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, on 23 March 2013. However, as might …
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Protest at Vedanta HQ as Supreme Court decision announced
Indian Supreme Court judges yesterday handed the final decision on Vedanta’s Niyamgiri mine to the Dongria Kond tribe and farmers living around the mountain. Two Gram Sabha’s (village councils) or local self-government within 10km of …
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Rio Tinto: what it says and what it really does in India
Rio Tinto expects to reap massive profits from its new diamond venture at Bunder in Madhya Pradesh State in India. And it sees its work there as a model of good practice. But a recent …
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Popular protest and judicial action against Vedanta subsidiary Sterlite at Tuticorin
Supreme Court fines Sterlite for polluting but sets aside High Court Order
Imposing a record penalty on a company for polluting the environment, the Supreme Court Tuesday ordered Sterlite Industries, a subsidiary of Britain-based Vedanta …
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Noxious gas from Vedanta subsidiary triggers scare in India
A suspected leak of noxious gas from the Sterlite Industries plant in Thoothukudi caused nausea and skin irritation among a section of local residents here on Saturday. While Sterlite officials denied any chemical leakage from …
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Mining causes poverty through the logic of the Resource Curse
By Felix Padel and Samarendra Das
An answer to Venky Vembu’s article ‘Jairam is wrong: It isn’t mining that causes poverty’ written after Jairam Ramesh’s januray visit to Niyamgiri mountain.
The mainstream belief that mining-based …
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Vedanta: Inside report from the Supreme Court Niyamgiri case
This report comes from Foil Vedanta’s friend in the court room as the Niyamgiri case continues…
http://www.foilvedanta.org/news/inside-report-from-the-supreme-court-niyamgiri-case/…
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UK investigation launched as MoEF repeats no to Niyamgiri mine
Dongria Kond and farmers protest on Niyamgiri (Photo: Foil Vedanta)
Yesterday the Indian Supreme Court held its latest hearing on Vedanta’s planned mega-mine which threatens the Dongria Kond tribe who live in the Niyamgiri hills. …
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