Vedanta in the frame for tax evasion
Around 160 multinationals profit from Mauritius’s status as a tax haven (Tax Justice Network gives Mauritius an “opacity” rating of almost 100%), in order to walk away with billions in undeclared profits. One of the worst of these is Vedanta Resource plc – Zambia’s biggest copper producer and among the wealthiest of UK mining companies. [...]
Rosaiah invites Anil Agarwal Foundation to relocate Vedanta university to Andra Pradesh
Even as the Congress and BJP, two parties in the opposition bench in Orissa, are stiffly opposing the setting up of the Vedanta University Project at Puri, two south Indian states, where the government of these parties are in power, are vying with each other to get the project relocated to their respective state. See [...]
Tribal leaders ‘abducted and interrogated’ over opposition to new mine
In recent weeks, two senior leaders of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe were seized and intimidated by plain-clothes police, activists say. They were active in the struggle to prevent Vedanta from mining in the Niyamgiri Hills. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10323 and http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/6337+.
Battles over Bauxite in East India: The Khondalite Mountains of Khondistan
Samarendra Das and Felix Padel examine the destructive nature of bauxite mining, including the impact of Vedanta’s operations in Orissa. Bauxite mining excavates a huge surface area, and has caused environmental devastation in Jamaica, Guinea, Australia, India and recently also in Vietnam. Perhaps no bauxite deposits are located in more sensitive areas than those in [...]
Further reflections on the Vedanta AGM, 28 July 2010
Let’s save the real Avatar Reflections on the Vedanta AGM by Bianca Jagger at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bianca-jagger/lets-save-the-real-avatar_b_677094.html. Amnesty UK video on Vedanta AGM at http://vimeo.com/14032664. Video (made for LMN by Mikey Watts) of the protests against Vedanta on the day of its 2010 AGM in London at http://www.vimeo.com/13758175.
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