On the eve of the PR Week Awards, Survival has presented its ’PR Disaster of the Year’ Award to Finsbury PR and its founder Roland Rudd for their work with FTSE-100 mining company Vedanta Resources. Finsbury is the retained PR agency for Vedanta Resources, which has...
Caving to opposition from all sides, the two firms shelved the joint venture that they claim would have reaped more than $10bn in savings, 16 months after they first unveiled the plan. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page39?oid=113134&sn=Detail.
In an uncanny replication of last week’s red mud disaster in Hungary, a settling pond gave way on October 8th at the Moma wet-dredge titanium mine in Mozambique. Flood waters coursed into a nearby village, leading to the disappearance – and likely drowning...
First Nations chiefs plan legal Potash challenge A group of resident First Nations chiefs are threatening to file a court injunction to force revenue sharing at the company, which could scupper its takeover by mining giant BHP Billiton. See...
On 29 September, the Madras High Court ordered the closure of Sterlite Industries’ copper smelter in Thoothukudi for violating environmental laws. The final judgement was delivered 14 years after the NGO National Trust for a Clean Environment claimed that Sterlite, a...
After the Niyamgiri ban, a controversy is brewing in Chhattisgarh over bauxite mining by Vedanta Resources, the UK-based conglomerate, in the Maikal hill ranges in Kawardha district with the opposition Congress demanding a probe into alleged large-scale infringement...
After getting the Tatas to move their Nano project from West Bengal to Gujarat, the western state’s Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems interested in getting UK-based Vedanta Resources Ltd to shift its aluminium refinery from Orissa to his state. A senior Gujarat...
After going slow for many years, the Indian Government is displaying urgency in a new mining law. The current law, the Mining and Minerals Development and Regulation Act, 1957, dates to a period when mining of important minerals was reserved for the public sector....
Canadian company Rugby Mining Limited has announced that it has, subject to regulatory and exchange approval, entered into an agreement with Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Colombia, over the Comita Porphyry Copper Gold Project in Colombia granting it the right to...
Human rights institutions from around the world have called for action on corporate abuse of human rights to be stepped up. Representatives from around 80 countries attending the 10th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions in Edinburgh made the...
Mining engineer Jack Parker has produced a report criticising as unsafe the design of Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott’s Eagle Mine in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – a mine already being condemned for its impact on Native treaty rights and sacred sites...
Indian court orders closure of Vedanta’s “polluting” copper plant, but justice may still be denied A case, alleging massive pollution by UK-listed Vedanta Resources at India’s largest copper smelter, has been set aside by the Supreme Court. See...
