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 …
The Niyamgiri Hills, which range over 250 kilometres across the districts of Rayagada, Kalahandi and Koraput in Orissa, are home to more than 8,000 Dongaria Kondhs and other tribals who are now wholeheartedly engaged in what they have been doing for centuries: defending their hills, forests and streams. This time, …
Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc.
Anyone can appeal against a project, says high court THE Delhi High Court recently ruled that any person concerned about the environmental impacts of a project could challenge it even if the person is not directly affected by the project. The court passed this order in a case related to …
Bhubaneswar, June 7: London-based Vedanta Resources will start its controversial Niyamgiri (bauxite) mining project in Kalahandi soon. Chairman of the Vedanta Resources Anil Agrawal, who met chief minister Naveen Patnaik last night, told reporters:
Armed with 'Stage I' clearance, mining major Vedanta has announced its plan to start bauxite mining project in Orissa's Niyamgiri Hills within a month and to invest Rs 25,000 crore more for its aluminium units in the state in next two years. "We are going to start our bauxite mining …
LONDON: Members of the rights group, Survival International, held a protest outside the Indian High Commission here on Wednesday to seek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Proceedings of the Public Hearing of M/S Vedanta Aluminium Limited for its expansion of Alumina Refinery from 1.0 MTPA to 6 .0 MTPA on 25.04.2009 at Village Belemba (Opposite Val Switch Yard), Lanjigarh, District Kalahandi. Proceeding of the Public Hearing of M/S Vedanta Aluminium Limited for its expansion of Alumina …
Proceeding of the public hearing of M/S Vedanta Aluminium limited for its expansion of alumina refinery from 1.0 mtpa to 6 .0 mtpa on 25.04.2009 at 10 a.m. at: village Belemba (opposite val switch yard), Lanjigarh, district Kalahandi.
Metal czar Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanta Resources has lined up Rs 125 crore investment for CSR activities in India next fiscal, even as the global economic slowdown is set to squeeze its profits by over 30 per cent in 2008-09. Touted as one amongst world's leading philanthropists by the US magazine …
Rs 11,500 cr Jharsuguda plant expansion faces delay over environmental issues. The Rs 11,500 crore expansion plan of Vedanta Aluminium (VAL) at Jharsuguda in Orissa may be delayed due to environmental issues. The company put up its expansion proposal before the Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Orissa Ltd two …
Company jumped the gun to feed refinery starved of bauxite, they allege IN THE dead of night on January 7, two earthmoving vehicles were seen moving up the forest road of Niyamgiri Hills. Villagers of Semalbhatta were quick to conclude that the heavy vehicles were from the nearby Lanjigarh refinery …
BHUBANESWAR: Industries Minister Biswa Bhusan Harichandan has said that out of the 2,310 acres of land sought by Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) for its alumina plant at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, 1,805.81 acres have been provided. In a written reply to a question from Ramchandra Ulaka (Congress), the Minister said …
Staff Reporter BERHAMPUR: Members of the Niyamgiri Bachao Samity (NBS) on Sunday held a meeting at Sakata under Muniguda block in Rayagada district to plan their future plans to oppose mining in the Niyamgiri hills in south Orissa. Around 1,000 delegates from villages to be affected by proposed mining in …
Have you noticed how the mighty automobile industry in the US is beginning to sound like the now infamous tobacco industry at the time of its collapse, taking cover behind the people it employed to whitewash its inefficiency and perhaps its sheer inappropriateness? The tobacco industry, in its last days …
