Vedanta’s environment clearance to mine the Niyamgiri hills has been withdrawn as the rejection of forest clearance had made the green nod ‘inoperable and infractuous’, the environment ministry told the National Green Tribunal on Thursday while indicating that the environmental clearance in itself was not bad technically.
See http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/No-environment-clearance-for-Vedanta-Centre-tells-green-tribunal/articleshow/9318453.cms.