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Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has ordered Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL) to halt expansion work at its alumina refinery & captive power plant in Lanjhigarh at Kalahandi district, Orissa. Direction under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 regarding withdrawal of ToRs, cancellation of Public Hearing and Action …
Environmental clearance to the mining leases of 5 ha (major minerals and mining leases of minor mineral of 5 ha which have been operating before 14.09.2006) - applicability of EIA Notification, 2006, dated October 21st, 2010.
Direction under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 regarding 1 MPTA Alumina Refinery and 75 MW Captive Power Plant at Lanjigarh, Kalahandi in Orissa by M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited, dated October 20th, 2010.
THEY were once held up as the three core projects that would catapult Orissa into the big league and as one of the most favoured business destinations globally. But five years down the line, the dreams have turned sour for Arcelor-Mittal India, Posco and Vedanta Resources as long delays in …
ON SEPTEMBER 17, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) cancelled two environmental clearances: Vedanta’s bauxite mining in Niyamgiri Hills in Odisha and the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC’s)Kotli-Behl 1B dam on the Alakananda river in Uttarakhand. A few days earlier, it had cancelled the environmental clearance for the integrated cement …
After the Niyamgiri ban, a controversy is brewing in Chhattisgarh over bauxite mining by Vedanta Resources, the UK-based mining conglomerate, in the Maikal hill ranges in Kawardha district with the opposition Congress demanding a probe into alleged large-scale infringement of green and tribal areas and violation of panchayat laws.
Vedanta Aluminium, which is facing a notice from the environment ministry about the legitimacy of its raw material sources, said it plans to obtain bauxite from a government-run mining company in western Gujarat. The unit of India
CPI State secretary D Pandian on Wednesday said the controversial Vedanta group should not be allowed to continue mining in the Shevaroy hills in Yercaud as the company had violated various laws. Addressing reporters along with CPI general secretary A B Bardhan at a press conference here, Pandian said Vedanta, …
LONDON stock market-listed Vedanta Resources has won the bauxite mining bid of Gujarat governmentowned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC). The Anil Agrawal-owned company will get 5 lakh tonnes of bauxite from the GMDC-owned mines. With ample supply from the Gujarat mines, Vedanta can run its Orissa-based refinery with the fullest …
Bhubaneswar: Having personally given its viewpoint before a green panel on Thursday, Vedanta Resources will now have to wait till October 30 to know the fate of its aluminium refinery plant in Odisha which is under scanner for alleged violation of environment norms. It was not a public hearing but …
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 …
The forest and environment department of the Orissa government has written to its Union government counterpart that the site of the proposed Vedanta University Project (VUP) does not fall under the Coastal Zone Regulation (CRZ) area and so there was no possibility of violation of CRZ norms.
ON August 24, Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, uploaded on the Ministry's website the text of his detailed decision rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. The decision is a rare instance of how the …
THE August 24 decision of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) refusing to allow mining in the Niyamgiri hills jointly by the Orissa Mining Corporation and Sterlite Industries (India) Limited, a Vedanta Group company, has given a boost to the movements against displacement of people and illegal mining …
With the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) nixing the Vedanta project at Niyamgiri hills, the Orissa government is now keeping its fingers crossed on the Rs 54,000 crore Posco steel project as the Meena Gupta committee set up by the ministry on Tuesday visited the site of the proposed …
