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 …
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd has sought a level playing field by seeking a waiver on public hearings on grounds that they were conducted twice — in 2003 and 2009 — to build the refinery and smelter. The union ministry for environment and forest had early last month asked the Anil Agarwal-owned …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG;) on Government of Odisha relates to matters arising from Performance Audit of selected programmes and activities and Compliance Audit of Government departments and Autonomous Bodies. The primary purpose of the Report is to bring to the notice of the …
This Monitoring Review Report was commissioned as the second 6-monthly update on Vedanta’s progress in implementing the Recommendations from the original independent strategic sustainability review that Scott Wilson undertook in September 2010. The first review of progress was undertaken in July 2011 and involved visits to the Vedanta Aluminium Limited …
Read executive summary of the updated EIA report for expansion of the Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha. Environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan has ordered that the preliminary nod given by the MoEF to the company be held in abeyance. Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), Lanjigarh is operating 1 MMTPA …
Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal Refutes Claims That New Entity Has Been Created To Park Group’s Debt Fire in the belly could be a hackneyed expression, but by his own admission it was quite literally this hunger which set him out on a journey from the bylanes of Patna to establishing …
Left to the Union panchayati raj and tribal affairs minister, Mr V Kishore Chandra Deo, the Poscos and Vedantas of the world would not get mining leases in tribal strongholds. Mr Deo feels land protection laws for tribals are being subverted by the practice of mining leases. “As a non-tribal …
Vedanta Resources, the London-listed holding company, will sell its stake in three companies in India to its Indian subsidiary Sterlite Industries in an all-share deal, two people with direct knowledge of the development said. Vedanta, owned by billionaire Anil Agarwal, will sell its 100% stake in Vedanta Aluminium, the 94.8% …
As the corporate sector “has been extremely cooperative when it comes to emission regulations”, the Union Government is planning to introduce a self regulatory system for companies to monitor and regulate their emissions and put it up on their Web sites, said Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of Environment and …
Seeks talks after court battle lost Crying “discrimination”, the Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) wants to initiate a fresh dialogue with the environment ministry to arrive at a solution enabling the expansion of its aluminum refinery in Orissa.Vedanta has claimed the ministry discriminated against it by not clearing its …
NEW DELHI: Vedanta Aluminium plans to meet officials of the environment ministry "soon" to chalk out its strategy related to expansion of alumina refinery in Orissa, following rejection of its review petition by the Orissa high court last week. "There is no stricture against us by the (Orissa) High Court. …
Though the Orissa government is quite prompt in signing a number of memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with different MNCs and corporate houses for execution of different mega projects in the state, somehow due to the cumbersome procedure of the state administration in acquiring the land as well as handling issues …
The successfully concluded $8.48-billion Cairn-Vedanta deal has come “under cloud” following instances of serious human rights violations, default of payment, environmental damage in its mining and metal projects in India, as pointed by the Internal Security section of the Home Ministry against Vedanta and its group of companies. Following the …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Tuesday clarified that there is no question of waiver of water tax to any industrial establishments, which have drawn water illegally for their consumption from the water sources in the state. Briefing newsmen here, water resources secretary Suresh Mohaptra rejected the allegation that a process …
State-run ONGC and the Oil Ministry's technical arm, the DGH, have given Cairn India the go-ahead for commencement of production from the Bhagyam oilfield, the second-largest find in the prolific Rajasthan block. Cairn, which was recently taken over by London-based mining group Vedanta, will begin oil production from Bhagyam at …
Hyderabad In a fresh setback to Vedanta Aluminium (VAL), an associate company of the globally-diversified mining group Vedanta Resources, the environment ministry has put off the issue of terms of reference for the expansion of the company’s Lanjigarh refinery project. The issuance is necessary to conduct environment impact assessment (EIA) …
Ministry puts on hold the terms of reference for refinery expansion till HC passes verdict Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanta Aluminium’s bid to expand its refinery capacity at Lanjigarh in Odisha’s Kalahandi district appears to have run into a legal hurdle with the environment ministry putting on hold the terms of reference …
The Home Ministry has given its approval to London-listed miner Vedanta Resources' buying majority stake in Cairn India for $8.7 billion. The Home Ministry, while giving the security no-objection certificate (NOC), highlighted eight areas of concern, including 64 legal proceedings against Vedanta and its subsidiaries in various courts, sources privy …
The Union Home Ministry has given its “security no-objection certificate” to the $8.71 billion share sale by Cairn India (CIL) to Vedanta on the national security angle but highlighted eight areas of concern, including 64 legal proceedings against Vedanta and its subsidiaries in various courts. “Independently of the above security …
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp is likely to give its 'no-objection certificate' to Cairn Energy Plc's stake sale in its Indian unit to Vedanta Resources by the year-end, its Chairman Sudhir Vasudeva said today. "Our Board had in principle given the NOC (no-objection certificate) in September," he told reporters …
