Niyamgiri effects: Vedanta seeks Odisha Govt intervention for alumina
Facing an acute shortage of alumina for its smelter at Jharsuguda, Vedanta Aluminium has asked the Odisha (Orissa) government to impress upon the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) to sell surplus...
View ArticleNiyamgiri is WON at seventh palli sabha!! Vedanta will have to stay away!
Monday 29th July 2013. This morning the seventh village – Phuldumer – again voted unanimously to reject Vedanta’s mine. This means the majority have now spoken, and Niyamgiri is saved by the people’s...
View ArticleJolt for Vedanta as mining in Niyamgiri Hills voted out
In what could be a jolt for Vedanta Aluminium Ltd, the fate of the beleaguered proposal to mine bauxite in Odisha’s Niyamgiri Hills was sealed on Monday, with the seventh of the 12 gram sabhas – at...
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Vedanta AGM disrupted by worldwide protests again!
Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy addresses protesters in Delhi Protesters from Foil Vedanta and other organizations held a loud carnival demonstration at the AGM of controversial FTSE 100...
View ArticleVedanta says: India needs us, and it wasn’t us what did it
Report of the Vedanta plc AGM held in the London Marriott Hotel near Grosvenor Square, 1 August 2013 While a lively and colourful protest took place in warm sunshine outside the Vedanta AGM, those in...
View ArticleNews from Niyamgiri: Vedanta and the Dongria Kondh
How Vedanta’s mine hope rests on 12 tribal villages In a remote village in the eastern Indian state of Orissa tribespeople have gathered under hastily erected sheds to decide whether to allow mining...
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Final tribal meeting rejects Vedanta’s mining proposal in Niyamgiri
Efforts of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), belonging to London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc, to mine bauxite ore in Niyamgiri hills in Odisha received a severe blow on Monday with the 12th palli...
View ArticleIndian Government says Odisha’s reading of verdict on Vedanta’s Niyamgiri...
The Indian Government has told the Odisha government that it cannot take short cuts on the Supreme Court’s order to hold village meetings on Vedanta Aluminium’s proposed bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri...
View ArticleThundering NO to Vedanta from Dongria Kondh village councils
The prospects for Vedanta’s Niyamgiri mine are looking even more remote as the results of the Palli Sabhas (village councils) being held on the command of the Supreme Court’s April judgement on the...
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Indian Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta’s mining proposal in Niyamgiri
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...
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Indian Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta’s mining proposal in Niyamgiri
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...
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Vedanta’s fatality rates ‘totally unacceptable’ says Vedanta’s CEO
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...
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Life on Mars – a report on the Vedanta AGM, London, 3 August 2015
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...
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Vedanta: literature, protests and court cases in London
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...
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Vedanta AGM report – Deja vu all over again …
Photo: Foil Vedanta 14th August 2017 For reporting on the demonstration outside the Vedanta AGM, highlights of the AGM itself, and protests around the world, see Vedanta’s 2017 AGM again disrupted by...
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Indian Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta's mining proposal in Niyamgiri
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...
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Vedanta's fatality rates 'totally unacceptable' says Vedanta's CEO
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...
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Life on Mars – a report on the Vedanta AGM, London, 3 August 2015
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...
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Vedanta: literature, protests and court cases in London
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...
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Vedanta AGM report – Deja vu all over again …
Photo: Foil Vedanta 14th August 2017 For reporting on the demonstration outside the Vedanta AGM, highlights of the AGM itself, and protests around the world, see Vedanta’s 2017 AGM again disrupted by...
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