The Vedanta group is operating a large aluminium smelter plant and nine captive power units in Orissa’s Jharsuguda district without clearances from the state pollution control board (OSPCB). Sources said there is massive political pressure on the OSPCB to wink at these transgressions and allow the plants to operate as this is one of the state’s two showpiece FDI projects.
See http://www.hindustantimes.com/No-pollution-clearance-Vedanta-runs-10-units/Article1-597883.aspx.