Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
For India to play its part in helping to realise deep cuts in global CO2 emissions by the middle of the 21st century, it will need to achieve rapid economic development over the next 40 years with only a very small increase in emissions. Currently there is no precedent for …
If it was the inability to resettle 450 families that sealed the fate for Korean steelmaker Posco in Orissa, the failure to give jobs to another 500 families in and around the Vedanta project in Niyamgiri put paid to the aluminium major
Kunal Bose / December 14, 2010, 0:37 IST One will not fail to notice the convergence of thoughts of our mines minister B K Handique and Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO of the world
Responsible Aluminium is a group of stakeholders collectively involved in the aluminium value-chain which have initiated a scoping phase seeking to establish a non-for-profit initiative to promote responsible practices relating to business ethics, social, human rights and environmental performance throughout the aluminium supply chain, from mining of the resource to …
NEW DELHI: The environment ministry Thursday decided to stall the six-fold expansion of London-based Vedanta's aluminium refinery and captive power plant in Orissa citing violation of environment laws and asked the state government to take legal action against the company. The ministry had issued show cause notice to the company …
Kolontar (Hungary): Workers raced to build an emergency dam in western Hungary on Sunday as cracks in a reservoir widened, threatening to unleash a second torrent of toxic sludge on the village of Kolontar and nearby rivers. About one million cubic metres of the waste material leaked out of the …
Hungary: A toxic red sludge spill from an alumina plant in western Hungary reached the Danube river on Thursday and crews were trying to dilute it to protect the major European waterway. Tibor Dobson, a spokesman for Hungarian disaster crews, said there were no reports of fish death in the …
Budapest: Hungary declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after a toxic mud spill killed four people and injured 120 in what officials described as Hungary
In a reiteration of its earlier stand, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) told the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) that it had not breached any regulatory norms at the site of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district. The company was today called for a personal hearing …
Makkavaripalem (Visakhapatnam), Sept. 21: Farmers of Makkavaripalem mandal fear that the suspension of bauxite mining rights to MNCs would result in loss of livelihood. Many farmers of Rachapalli, Ramannapalem and surrounding hamlets have had their agricultural fields acquired for an alumina plant, though they complained about the compensation package. However, …
Bhubaneswar: The Centre on Wednesday made it clear that it would not tolerate any back door entries by industry for seeking mines, a move that could dampen corporate efforts of forging alliances with PSUs for their mining projects. Asked about the industrial controversies relating to mining activities like that in …
Standards not consistent, rules changed midway, it contends. You are not going by your own rules, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) intends to tell the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) tomorrow. Also, it plans to say MoEF is applying to VAL a different standard than the one being held …
S Kalyana Ramanathan / London September 13, 2010, 0:18 IST Even as London-based mining and metals major Vedanta Resources struggles to procure bauxite from Niyamgiri in Orissa for its 1-million tonne capacity alumina project in the state, it has managed to find a new source of a slightly lower grade …
VEDANTA ALUMINA chief operating officer, Dr Mukesh Kumar, on Wednesday met Orissa steel and mines minister, Mr Raghunath Mohanty, and urged him to provide alternative bauxite mines for the company
Ranju Sarkar / New Delhi September 8, 2010, 0:37 IST Given the serious allegations against the firm, did these members of the board fail in their duty to safeguard the interests of stakeholders? Vedanta Resources had environment clearance to set up a 1-million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa. …
The rejection of forest clearance for mining Niyamgiri is indeed a historic decision. It has vindicated the historical injustice done, in this case to Dongaria and Kutia Kondh tribal communities, due to the non-recognition of their forest rights on ancestral lands and their habitat in the consolidation of state forests …
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government will find it tough to provide another mining site to Vedanta Resources, which was denied permission to mine bauxite in Niyamgiri Hills, a top company official said on Monday.
Environmental fundamentalism is proving a major hurdle to economic development in India A V Rajwade / New Delhi September 06, 2010, 0:39 IST Continuing the last week
