Vedanta Resources PLC’s bauxite mining project in eastern India hasn’t received environmental clearance, the Indian government has said. Reacting to a Times of India report that an environment panel had reviewed and cleared the project in Orissa state’s remote Niyamgiri hills, India’s ministry of environment said that, whatever the panel’s recommendations might be, the project hasn’t been given approval to cut forests for mining.
See http://www.epcengineer.com/news/post/5479/indias-ministry-says-no-green-nod-for-vedantas-bauxite-mine-project.