Although overshadowed by its “battle for Nyamgiri”, Vedanta Resources’ bid for US copper company, Asarco, is probably just as important a strategic priority for the UK company. Notorious hedge fund manager, Philip Falcone, is rumoured to be backing...
India’s National Human Rights Commission has written to the Government of Orissa demanding a full report into its joint venture mining project with British mining giant Vedanta Resources, following a complaint submitted by Survival. The complaint concerns...
Although Rio has now regained third position in the global hierarchy (based on its market capitalisation) Sergeant ascribes this achievement almost wholly to the company’s ascendancy in the seaborne iron ore trade. (What he doesn’t add is that, as last...
Judge upholds permits for Rio Tinto subsidiary’s mine in USA, but with caveat Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson announced on Tuesday, August 18, that he will uphold permits issued to Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company by the Michigan Department of...
A number of local authorities in Britain, with investments in Vedanta, are coming under some pressure, among them: London Borough of Wandsworth Leicestershire County Council Cheshire West and Chester and London Borough of Havering.
Niyamgiri Surakshya Samiti (NSS) alleged that Vedanta Alumina, which has put up a one million tonne per annum capacity alumina refinery plant at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, took up expansion work without obtaining any environmental clearance. See...
