On November 12 2010, the Indian newspaper Orissa Diary published a report claiming that eight tribal and other NGOs had submitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition to the state’s High Court on behalf of Vedanta Resources plc. According to the report,...
Vedanta’s profits for the first half of its current financial year have disappointed the London-listed, Indian uber-miner. In fact, since January 2010, the company has “under-performed” the British mining index by 25%. Just three years ago it was...
Vedanta Resources Plc said it has entered into financing agreements with a consortium of banks for $ 6 billion to fund its proposed buyout of up to 60 per cent stake in Cairn India. London-listed Vedanta Resources planned stake acquisition in Cairn India, which was...
The proposed Vedanta University, India’s answer to Stanford and Harvard, suffered a blow after Orissa High Court ruled the land acquisition for the project in Orissa’s Puri town as illegal and void. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10536.
Vedanta Resources does not seem interested in setting up an alumina refinery and an aluminium smelter in Gujarat. It has decided against an expression of interest (EoI) as invited by the state-owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation. See...
“Something is sickening the people of Tiara and their crops”. That’s what the Mines and Communities website reported more than five years ago. In 2008, a study showed that Anglo American’s Lomas de Nickel mine in Venezuela was responsible. But...
