An extremely serious allegation has been made against UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc. The company is accused of sponsoring a briefing to para-militaries, employed to “safeguard” its aluminium operations in Orissa, where they were told to regard local,...
Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Aluminium is in the process of raising Rs 16000 crore (160 billion rupees, just over £2.2 billion) for its aluminium project in Orissa, sources with direct knowledge said. Another source said the Orissa government has assured Vedanta of a...
Canada’s Greystar Resources (listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market) has withdrawn its request for an environmental permit for its Angostura project in the Colombian páramos of Santurbán. The company’s move seems to let the Ministry of ...
‘Dirty Money – Corporate greenwash and RBS coal finance’ takes the case of the Royal Bank of Scotland, an international bank with interests across the fossil fuel sector that is promoting itself as a genuine actor in climate change efforts. RBS is...
AS talks resurfaced in the past few weeks about re-opening the Panguna copper mine, so too have the critics of Bougainville Copper’s environmental record. One of the most vocal critics is London-based activist and researcher Roger Moody. See...
Too Cheap to Meter: The Top 10 Myths of Nuclear Power http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rose/too-cheap-to-meter-the-to_b_835730.html Wind power cheaper than nuclear, says EU climate chief Connie Hedegaard says declining cost of offshore wind energy makes it...
