In July 2011, Amnesty International issued a report, “Generalisations, omissions, assumptions: The failings of Vedanta’s Environmental Impact Assessments for its bauxite mine and alumina refinery in India’s state of Orissa”.
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Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, for 9 August, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
… In India, social unrest and conflicts over land acquisition for development …
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Anger erupted inside and outside Vedanta’s annual meeting on Wednesday as campaigners protested against the mining company’s environmental and human rights record.
Amnesty International press release, 24 July 2011
Ongoing attempts by UK-based mining company Vedanta Resources to overturn an Indian government decision blocking a proposed bauxite mine and expansion of an alumina refinery in Orissa should …
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Vedanta’s environment clearance to mine the Niyamgiri hills has been withdrawn as the rejection of forest clearance had made the green nod ‘inoperable and infractuous’, the environment ministry told the National Green Tribunal on Thursday …
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Vedanta Resources PLC’s bauxite mining project in eastern India hasn’t received environmental clearance, the Indian government has said. Reacting to a Times of India report that an environment panel had reviewed and cleared the project …
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The Supreme Court has given a month’s time to the Centre, the Orissa government and UK-based Vedanta’s Indian arm Sterlite Industries on the challenge made by the state’s mining corporation to the cancellation of environmental …
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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.
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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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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 (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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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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