Job advertisement: Finance Worker for London Mining Network (LMN)

This post was advertised previously and is being readvertised with a new application deadline of 18 September. LMN is a network of 28 organisations concerned about the social and ecological impacts of London-based and London-financed mining companies. We work to...

Is multiculturalism bad for the FTSE?

With the problems facing foreign mining giants Vedanta, Glencore and African Barrick Gold, is the multicultural flavour of the FTSE100 beneficial for the UK economy? Multiculturalism is – to put it mildly – controversial. Some say multiculturalism it is a...

More press coverage of the Vedanta AGM

Over 12% shareholders oppose hike for Vedanta Resources top officials More than 12 per cent shareholders of Vedanta Resources Plc voted against its top deck’s 3-5 per cent salary hike for 2012-13 at the company’s annual general meeting here.  Vedanta Board...

Vedanta AGM: press coverage

Mining giant’s AGM under siege over rights abuses Vedanta Resources, the controversial London-based mining giant accused of serious abuses at its sites in India, came under sustained attack at its AGM yesterday as big institutional investors echoed the...

Vedanta AGM report

Notes on the Vedanta AGM held at the Lincoln Centre, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, Tuesday 28 August 2012. Chairman Anil Agarwal said that it had been a ‘transformational year’ and that the company had achieved a ‘robust performance’. There had, however, been 22...

India orders Vedanta subsidiary to shut coke unit on pollution

Sesa Goa, owned by miner Vedanta Resources, must shut its 280,000 metric tons per year metallurgical coke unit in western Goa state after complaints about pollution, a State Pollution Board official said. Shares of Sesa Goa extended losses by 3.73 percent at 180.45...

Human rights groups to protest Vedanta AGM

London Mining Network press release What: AGM of controversial London-listed mining company Vedanta When: Tuesday 28 August at 3pm Where: Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED Controversial, India-based mining company Vedanta will again be the...

Vedanta’s pollution of water in Zambia

This report from Southern Africa Resource Watch, one of the organisations on the ground in Zambia, was written for Foil Vedanta for the 2012 Vedanta AGM demonstration. It reveals the ongoing pollution of groundwater for hundreds of people in the Shimulala community...