Despite Vedanta’s roaring hoardings of ‘Mining Happiness’, forceful grabbing of adivasi land by the company in Lanjigarh has always been a burning issue. Adivasis had been knocking all possible doors for justice: from the local …
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Vedanta at Lanjigarh: developer or landgrabber?
Red mud spill at Vedanta plant
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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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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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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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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Vedanta fights Indian Government over Lanjigarh smelter
India says willing to reconsider Vedanta refinery plan
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh said that he was willing to revive Vedanta Resources’ plans to expand its alumina refinery in Orissa provided the firm met certain conditions.…
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Vedanta and market fundamentalism
The road from Rayagada north to Bissamcuttack and the Kalahandi border is in a state of rampant disrepair. A smashed lorry lies overturned in a ditch — one of countless accidents in recent years. At …
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India: Yet more shenanigans linked to UK mining company
On November 12 2010, the Indian newspaper Orissa Diary published a report claiming that eight tribal and other NGOs had submitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition to the state’s High Court on behalf of …
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World’s “worst” mining company in the dock – again!
Vedanta’s Balco killings could land directors in court
Hardly a month passes without yet another serious accusation being levelled against Vedanta Resources plc – the mining company which, some have argued, is the “worst” on …
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