Citizens from all around the world have joined civil society, non government organisations and scientists in calling on the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to halt issuing further exploration licences and to establish a moratorium on deep sea mining.
The top dog of Vedanta Resources, Anil Agarwal, has embarked on yet another mission to enlarge his Indian empire, while at the same time attempting to slash his massive accumulated debt.
The top dog of Vedanta Resources, Anil Agarwal, has embarked on yet another mission to enlarge his Indian empire, while at the same time attempting to slash his massive accumulated debt.
This example of using contaminated copper concentrate at one of its smelters isn’t the only one in the history of Vedanta (parent of Zambia’s KCM). Since 1995, the company’s notorious Tuticorin copper smelter in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has done the same thing. It’s imported copper concentrate from Australia, knowing full well it contained significant amounts of radioactive uranium ore.
Intensifying their protest against mining by Vedanta Aluminium Limited, the residents of 10 villages on Tuesday put up sign boards and red flags atop the mountain protesting the aluminium major’s mining plans at Danga Deulo hill in Odisha’s Koraput district.
