Around 160 multinationals profit from Mauritius’s status as a tax haven (Tax Justice Network gives Mauritius an “opacity” rating of almost 100%), in order to walk away with billions in undeclared profits. One of the worst of these is Vedanta Resource...
Even as the Congress and BJP, two parties in the opposition bench in Orissa, are stiffly opposing the setting up of the Vedanta University Project at Puri, two south Indian states, where the government of these parties are in power, are vying with each other to get...
In recent weeks, two senior leaders of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe were seized and intimidated by plain-clothes police, activists say. They were active in the struggle to prevent Vedanta from mining in the Niyamgiri Hills. See...
Samarendra Das and Felix Padel examine the destructive nature of bauxite mining, including the impact of Vedanta’s operations in Orissa. Bauxite mining excavates a huge surface area, and has caused environmental devastation in Jamaica, Guinea, Australia, India...
Let’s save the real Avatar Reflections on the Vedanta AGM by Bianca Jagger at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bianca-jagger/lets-save-the-real-avatar_b_677094.html. Amnesty UK video on Vedanta AGM at http://vimeo.com/14032664. Video (made for LMN by Mikey Watts)...
Colombia’s biggest coal exporter Cerrejon said on Thursday that four contractors had been killed and 12 others injured while repairing a coal-storage silo in the Andean nation. See http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05169475.htm and...
