At the end of May, a High Court judge in London allowed 1,826 Zambian villagers to take legal action against mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc through the UK Courts. The villagers allege serious pollution by the company’s subsidiary Koncola Copper Mines (KCM)...
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network This year’s Vedanta AGM was preceded, as usual, by a vibrant and noisy demonstration organised by our friends at Foil Vedanta – one of a series of demonstrations against the company organised also in India...
MANIFESTO IN SOLIDARITY WITH QUILOMBOLAS FROM ORIXIMINÁ THREATENED BY MINING The undersigned organisations come to publicly express their solidarity with the quilombolas from Oriximiná, Pará State, threatened by mining exploration on their traditional territories, and...
It comes to something when a company can make a former Chief Executive of the rapacious Rio Tinto look good. But Vedanta makes practically anyone look good by comparison. And former Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese, now CEO of Vedanta, provided a breath of fresh air at...
Environment Minister Veerappa Moily has decided not to allow the Vedanta Group to mine the Niyamgiri Hills for bauxite, the raw material that it needs for its Rs 4,500-crore alumina plant at Lanjigarh, ministry officials said. The decision will be conveyed to the...
