Amnesty petition on Vedanta
London-based Vedanta Resources, through its subsidiary companies, plans to mine for bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, considered sacred by the Indigenous Dongria Kondh community. The proposed mine will threaten the community’s rights to water, food, health and work. Local communities in nearby Lanjigarh, whose farmlands were acquired for Vedanta’s alumina refinery in 2003, are struggling [...]
Vedanta petition
A number of people concerned about Vedanta’s operations around the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa have drawn up a petition to the company’s investors, asking them to disinvest. See http://www.PetitionOnline.com/vedanta2/petition.html.
Further coverage of Vedanta disaster
Vedanta under scrutiny as 100 feared dead at aluminium plant The safety policies of the London-listed mining giant Vedanta Resources are set to come under scrutiny after an accident at one of its sites in India killed as many as 100 people on Wednesday. The group has already been blacklisted by some investors over ethical [...]
Goa: Sky’s the limit as court rules against Vedanta
A nine-year old boy recently filed a public interest petition against the “unsafe” mining activities of India’s biggest mining company – UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc. Akaash Naik was backed by Claude Alvares, the highly-esteemed director of the Goa Foundation. Last week, he met with some success: Bombay’s High Court ruled that the company should halt [...]
