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“We filed this law suit to protect the health of 2 million people. All air pollution is not created equal and Kennecott’s is some of the most toxic there is.”

Tom Albanese has taken on a senior advisory role at Vedanta just eight months after being ousted as Rio Tinto CEO. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-fast-news?oid=205086&sn=Detail. See also: Former Rio Tinto boss joins Vedanta,...

Twelve villages in the state of Orissa in India voted against the plans by Vedanta Aluminium Limited to quarry the Niyamgiri hills for bauxite last month in a historic referendum mandated by the Supreme Court. Vedanta initially signed a memorandum with the state...

Facing an acute shortage of alumina for its smelter at Jharsuguda, Vedanta Aluminium has asked the Odisha (Orissa) government to impress upon the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) to sell surplus alumina to it. See http://odishatoday.com/viewnews.php?news_id=5396.

Mining group Anglo American has pulled out of the Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska, less than two months after pledging to halve a $17 billion pipeline of potential mines and bring down the cost of keeping future options open. The decision, announced on Monday,...

Coal mining group Bumi, which plans to split with the Indonesian Bakrie family that co-founded the company, said on Monday that the protracted separation deal should complete by November. Bumi, created to bring together Indonesian mining assets in a London-listed...

Marikana inquiry’s mistakes call for a rethink ON October 1 last year, the Marikana Commission of Inquiry held its first day of hearings into the events of and before August 16 of that year, during which 45 people were killed. The commission’s chairman, Judge Ian...

"If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling "new" fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas -- and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet". See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12442.

Pressure is growing on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to agree tighter regulations on its funding of new coal power plants. Currently half of the EBRD’s energy portfolio supports fossil fuels, which includes US$1 billion in past financing...

Rock band Manic Street Preachers are backing next month's unveiling of Wales' national mining memorial and the commemoration marking the centenary of the Senghenydd mining disaster. The explosion at the Universal Colliery on 14 October 1913, is the UK's worst pit...