It should have been shut down nearly a year ago. But, despite an order by the Madras High Court, UK-listed Vedanta Resources has been allowed to continue operating its highly-polluting Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) copper smelter in …
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More “accidents” at Vedanta’s Indian copper smelter
Nuclear news
Rio outbids Cameco for Hathor Exploration
Rio Tinto is expanding its presence in Canada with an all-cash offer to acquire Hathor Exploration, which owns the Roughrider uranium deposit in Saskatchewan. See http://www.mining.com/2011/10/19/rio-outbids-cameco-for-hathor-exploration/.
Ranger mine …
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Nuclear news
Protesters have been on hunger strike to prevent nuclear power station construction in Tamil Nadu, India
Indefinite Fast Against Nuclear Plant in Koodankulam
http://www.justicia.in/indefinite-fast-against-koodankulam-nuclear-plant-5th-day-update/
Anti- Nuclear Fasters’ Health Critical
http://www.countercurrents.org/pmane180911.htm
“Halt Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Project” – …
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Apex court reserves order on Vedanta subsidiary’s plant
The Indian Supreme Court has reserved its order on a plea of Vedanta subsidiary Sterlite Industries Ltd. (SIL), which has sought permission to continue operating its Tamil Nadu-based copper smelting plant which was ordered shut …
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Vedanta guilty of violations at Indian copper smelter: Supreme Court orders pollution control measures
In October last year, the Madras High Court ordered Sterlite Industries – a subsidiary of UK-listed Vedanta Resources – to cease operating its Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) copper smelter in Tamil Nadu. Local citizen environmentalists had provided …
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Indian Supreme Court gives reprieve to Vedanta subsidiary’s Tuticorin copper unit
Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd, a unit of the London-listed Vedanta Resources, can keep running its Tuticorin copper smelter unit for now. The Supreme Court overruled the Madras High Court’s earlier order to close the unit …
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Vedanta off the hook in Tamil Nadu – but only for a while
India’s Supreme Court has stayed hearing of the case, leveled by environmental groups in Tamil Nadu, against Vedanta-Sterlite’s allegedly highly polluting Tuticorin copper smelter.
Although The Hindu newspaper reports this as a “relief” for Vedanta, …
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Courts battle over polluting Sterlite plant. Meanwhile, people continue to suffer
On 29 September, the Madras High Court ordered the closure of Sterlite Industries’ copper smelter in Thoothukudi for violating environmental laws. The final judgement was delivered 14 years after the NGO National Trust for a …
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A famous battle is won – now to end the war!
India’s environment ministry damns Vedanta’s Nyamgiri mine
It wasn’t a foregone conclusion. However, following the unequivocal high-level condemnation of Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mining of the Nyamgiri hills in Orissa, a fortnight back, it would have …
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Anti-Vedanta activism hits the spotlight in Tamil Nadu
Vedanta’s aggressions against Dongaria Kondh, Dalit and other communities in Orissa, aren’t the only examples of the UK company’s unlawful behaviour, now confirmed by India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Manifold indictments of the company’s …
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Vedanta: Risks to banks
At a September seminar in London with investors in Vedanta, mining researcher Roger Moody of Nostromo Research gave the following paper on risks to banks from investments in the company.
Roger has 26 years experience …
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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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