The IEA’s special report Energy and AI, out today, offers the most comprehensive, data-driven global analysis to date on the growing connections between energy and AI. The report draws on new datasets and extensive consultation with policy makers, the tech sector, the energy industry and international experts. It projects that …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Vedanta is sourcing bauxite from Gujarat and its BALCO project in Chhattisgarh , so it is paying hefty sums on the transportation. Procedural delays, bureaucratic hassles and lack of political will may result in the possibility of yet another foreign direct investment (FDI) project shying away from …
I cannot get detached from my own people for petty politics, he says BERHAMPUR: While the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is promoting the Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL), a former BJD MLA of Rayagada district Sarangadhar Kadraka has decided to be in the forefront of the agitation against the mining of …
This essay contends that the economic liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) model of development in India is virtually depriving the tribal people and other agriculture dependent poor people of their traditional means of sustainable livelihood by promoting the unregulated growth of mineral-based industries in the tribal regions of India. In …
JHARSUGUDA: Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) has recruited the first batch of 22 members of the project displaced families (PDF) in technician grade for its aluminium plant project here recently. The initiative comes a few months after the district administration distributed Record of Rights among the PDF families in June this …
Please accept my greetings I am a Dongria Kondh and take pride in my identity. I live in the Niyamgiri hills. The hills are also the abode of our gods. It never occurred to us or our ancestors that our home or way of living would one day come under …
Company increases effluent outlets instead of plugging them THE Orissa state pollution control board has issued notice to the Jharsuguda unit of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (val), a subsidiary of the mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc, after inspections revealed the company
While the National Environment Appellate Authority was set up as an independent body to address cases in which environmental clearances have been granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, it has failed to serve as an effective redressal mechanism to address the grievances of aggrieved citizens. This is primarily …
Mining giant Vedanta is all set to diversify into steel business. Sesa Goa Ltd in which Vedanta has the controlling share, has begun negotiations with Japanese and European companies to set up a steel plant in India. Sesa Goa, an iron ore producer, recently acquired VS Dempo and Co Ltd …
BHUBANESWAR: The Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) today strongly denied starting any mining activity in Niyamgiri hills of Kalahandi where its alumina project is sited. Mining will be undertaken by a joint venture (JV) company between the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) and Sterlite Industries India Ltd (SIIL), and not by Vedanta …
S Kalyana Ramanathan / London August 05, 2009, 1:12 IST UK-based metals major Vedanta Resources came under more pressure as it was revealed today that one of its group companies, Balco, is a supplier of refined aluminum to the Indian defence sector. This information is now being used by human …
New Delhi, Aug 4 Centre today warned the Vedantagroup that it can be prosecuted if it resorts to "illegalmining" of bauxiteat Nyomgiri in Orissa since the AnilAgarwal-controlled firm has been given only in-principleapproval. "They have got environmental approval in-principle. Theyhave not got full forest clearance. If mining is taking placein …
Booker Prize winning writer Arundhati Roy and British human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger were among a group of high-profile figures who lent their support to a protest held here outside the offices of the mining company, Vedanta Resources, demanding that it withdraw its plans to construct a massive bauxite mine …
S Kalyana Ramanathan / London July 28, 2009, 0:53 IST Campaigners from Hamburg-based (Germany) think-tank World Future Council, along with British charity ActionAid, today protested against the Church of England and Middlesbrough Borough Council for investing their pension funds in UK-based metals and mining company Vedanta Resources Plc (with an …
SAMBALPUR: Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), Jharsuguda, has been issued with show-cause notice by the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) for violating various sections of water and air pollution Acts. The notice has been issued to CEO and whole-time Director of VAL M Siddiqi after VAL failed to rectify anomalies regarding …
Widespread pollution by the Vedanta refinery in Orissa raises serious questions about environmental monitoring. At first sight the images are picture perfect. There are gurgling streams, a rushing river, a tree-dotted landscape, all of which are partially covered in snow, the kind of destinations tour operators peddle every summer. Then …
Kunal Bose / July 8, 2009, 0:33 IST Operational synergy, cost saving and some say in product pricing without inviting the glare of monopoly regulator are what inspire mergers and acquisitions (M&As;). That for Sesa Goa, a Vedanta Resources group company, the acquisition of Dempo
