Event: Vedanta on Trial, Friday 1 December 2017
In September 2009 following heavy storms, a power plant chimney suddenly collapsed, killing at least 42 impoverished, sub-contracted workers. The catastrophe occurred at the Korba aluminium complex in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, majority owned and managed by...
Vedanta AGM report – Deja vu all over again …
Photo: Foil Vedanta 14th August 2017 For reporting on the demonstration outside the Vedanta AGM, highlights of the AGM itself, and protests around the world, see Vedanta’s 2017 AGM again disrupted by protests (on the Foil Vedanta website). For a full account of...
Worker injury at Vedanta's Tuticorin operations
In the early hours of Saturday 18 March, 2017, a 31 year old worker was engaged by contractor Operational Energy Group Ltd to do some maintenance work on a conveyor belt at the Phosphoric Acid Plant at Vedanta subsidiary Sterlite’s copper smelter in Thoothukudi,...