Niyamgiri Orissa

• Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta's bauxite mine request

  Vedanta Aluminium's 1 million tonne-a-year alumina refinery in the eastern state has been struggling to source key raw material bauxite since its commissioning in August 2007. The company has been forced to import bauxite as a result.

• SC sends notices to MoEF, Orissa, Sterlite on Niyamgiri mining

  The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Orissa government, the Environment Ministry and Sterlite Industries on a petition challenging the cancellation of environmental clearance to Niyamgiri Bauxite Mining Project in the state. A bench of Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik issued notices to the parties involved in the issue and di...

• SC notice to MoEF, Orissa, Sterlite on Niyamgiri mining

  The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Orissa government, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) and the UK-based Vedanta's Indian arm Sterlite Industries on a petition challenging cancellation of environmental clearance to Niyamgiri Bauxite Mining Project in the state. A bench of Justice R. V. Raveendran and Justice A. K. Pat...

• Orissa govt backs Vedanta, moves court against ban on mining

  The Orissa government has thrown its weight behind mining group Vedanta Aluminium Limited and has moved the Supreme Court against the Centre's ban on bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri Hills for the group's Rs 5,000-crore alumina refinery project at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district of the state.The state government's move came after the Jairam Ramesh-l...

• Orissa: POSCO trouble far from over

  Even after five-and-half years since its inception, the biggest foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for the country, the POSCO steel project has failed to take off due to widespread opposition from several quarters. Now, the 51,000 crore project has run into more trouble as the environment clearance to the project seems unlikely.But the Orissa governme...

• Protests at Vedanta site after 5000 contract workers sacked

  Days after the environment ministry cancelled its clearance to the Vedanta mining project in Orissa and put its refinery on notice, workers are protesting at the plant site in Lanjigarh.More than 5000 workers were suddenly retrenched on Tuesday by Larsen & Turbo, the contractor for carrying out Vedanta's construction work.After protests by the ...

• Rahul Gandhi to Orissa tribals: You have saved Niyamgiri

  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is celebrating "victory" in Orissa's Kalahandi, saying the rejection of environment clearance to a big bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills is a victory of the local tribal people."Your voice reached Delhi and you saved your land. I did what I could, but this is your victory," Rahul said in Lanjigarh on Thursda...