Mahan Coal Ltd (MCL) – which is jointly owned by Essar Energy Plc and the Aditya Birla-owned Hindalco Industries Ltd – wants to mine part of the 1,000-square-km forests in Madhya Pradesh for coal. Essar has only recently delisted from the London Stock Exchange.
The UK government must stop relying on voluntary measures to prevent UK businesses harming people and the environment overseas, a network of leading human rights, development and environmental NGOs said yesterday.
London-listed BHP Billiton came under heavy fire in Parliament [of Papua New Guinea] yesterday with legislators describing the PNG Sustainable Development Program as only a clever ploy.
The legislators are claiming the mining giant came up with the program to escape prosecution for massive environmental damage from Ok Tedi mining operations.
At Vedanta’s annual general meeting in London on August 1 2014, the newly-elected CEO, Tom Albanese, defended conduct of a July Public Hearing at Lanjigarh, Odisha (Orissa), in these terms:
“[It] was a proper process and the community was in favour of the expansion of the refinery at Lanjigarh”. This refinery is located adjacent to the Nyamgiri hills, the mining of which was last year overwhelmingly rejected by indigenous members of that community in village councils (gram sabhas). India’s Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) upheld their decision, and no attempt has been made to initiate the project since. It’s a different matter so far as the alumina refinery is concerned.
At Vedanta’s annual general meeting in London on August 1 2014, the newly-elected CEO, Tom Albanese, defended conduct of a July Public Hearing at Lanjigarh, Odisha (Orissa), in these terms:
“[It] was a proper process and the community was in favour of the expansion of the refinery at Lanjigarh”. This refinery is located adjacent to the Nyamgiri hills, the mining of which was last year overwhelmingly rejected by indigenous members of that community in village councils (gram sabhas). India’s Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) upheld their decision, and no attempt has been made to initiate the project since. It’s a different matter so far as the alumina refinery is concerned.
