Indian Environment Minister to review Vedanta clearances
Ramesh to review Posco, Vedanta clearances Controversy-prone Indian minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh has now decided to review the forest clearances granted to Posco and Vedanta Resources. Both the giant Korean firm (Pohang Steel Company) and the UK-based Vedanta Resources have been pressing to start mining operations in Orissa. Their efforts have been [...]
Deadly conflict over mining laws in Peru
Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen from LMN member group CATAPA were caught up in the brutal police response to recent Indigenous protests over laws opening the Peruvian Amazon region to mining, oil and timber development. Survival International has published their report, ‘Death at Devil’s Bend: an eyewitness account’, which provides a dramatic narrative of the [...]
