Rejection of environment clearance to Vedanta unfortunate: Orissa
14 years, 7 months ago

Rejection of environment clearance to Vedanta unfortunate: Orissa

The Hindu  

The Orissa government today termed as “unfortunate” the Centre’s decision to reject environment clearance to Vedanta’s $ 1.7 billion bauxite mining project in Kalahandi district. “It is extremely unfortunate that the Central government has rejected environment clearance to the bauxite mining project for Vedanta,” Orissa’s Industries and Steel and Mines Minister Raghuanth Mohanty told reporters. “Having given in-principle environment clearance to the project long ago, the Union Environment and Forest Ministry has now all of a sudden announced its decision to reject the Stage-II clearance in an improper and inappropriate manner,” he said. After in-principle clearance was accorded for the bauxite mining project at Niyamgiri in Lanjigarh area, considerable progress was made in the work of Vedanta Aluminium Limited which also took steps to augment the capacity of its refinery at Lanjigarh, Mr. Mohanty said.

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Public hearing held in Odisha for eco clearance for Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mine
1 year, 5 months ago

Public hearing held in Odisha for eco clearance for Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mine

The Hindu  

A crucial public hearing seeking environmental clearance for bauxite mining by Vedanta Limited at Sijimali in Odisha’s Rayagada district on October 16 got over with the majority of villages voicing concerns over the possible adverse impact of mining on local ecology. Fresh hurdle The Vedanta group, whose bauxite extraction plan through public sector Odisha Mining Corporation from Niyamgiri Hill Range …

Vedanta gets environment clearance for Rs 12,000 crore oil and gas expansion project in Rajasthan
5 years, 11 months ago

Vedanta gets environment clearance for Rs 12,000 crore oil and gas expansion project in Rajasthan

Firstpost  

The proposal is to expand onshore oil and gas production from the existing 3,00,000 BOPD to 4,00,000 BOPD New Delhi: Mining moghul Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Ltd has received environment clearance for the expansion of its oil and gas operation in Rajasthan that would entail an investment of Rs 12,000 crore, according to an official circular. The proposal is to expand …

Make in Odisha Conclave 2018: Vedanta plans to inject Rs 15000 cr to raise alumina refinery capacity
6 years, 4 months ago

Make in Odisha Conclave 2018: Vedanta plans to inject Rs 15000 cr to raise alumina refinery capacity

Firstpost  

“Vedanta has already invested over Rs 50,000 crore in Odisha projects. Fresh investment of Rs 15,000 crore will be made in the next three years for the expansion of Lanjigarh refinery and strengthening of downstream sector,” Agarwal said this while addressing the conclave and later interacting with journalists. Bhubaneswar: Vedanta Resources Chairman Anil Agarwal on Monday announced the company’s plan …

Jayanthi Natarajan, the fall guy?
10 years, 2 months ago

Jayanthi Natarajan, the fall guy?

The Hindu  

She allegedly sat on various projects even after Expert Appraisal Committee clearance Aug. 2010: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi assures Niyamgiri tribals he is their ‘sipahi in Delhi’ April, 2013: Supreme Court rules Vedanta must get nod from 12 gram sabhas of Niyamgiri hills “If the bauxite mining project in any way affects religious rights, especially their right to worship their …

Experts for hassle-free bauxite mining Eastern Ghats
10 years, 4 months ago

Experts for hassle-free bauxite mining Eastern Ghats

The Hindu  

Making strong pitch for clearing hurdles for bauxite mining in Eastern Ghats, several experts on Thursday called for developing Andhra Pradesh and Odisha as the world’s most preferred destination for investment in aluminium industry. Seeking relaxation of norms with regard to regulations and allaying fears among environmental activists over adverse impact of mining in the hills, the experts who assembled …

Vedanta to get mines in 3-4 months: Agrawal
10 years, 5 months ago

Vedanta to get mines in 3-4 months: Agrawal

India TV News  

Bhubaneswar: Anil Agrawal, founder and executive chairman of London-listed Vedanta Resources, Tuesday said the Odisha government has assured him that bauxite mines will be provided within three to four months to feed its one-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district. The chief minister has assured to give the mines within three-four months to operate the plants," said Agrawal after meeting …

Posco cleared, Vedanta loses bid for Niyamgiri project
11 years, 2 months ago

Posco cleared, Vedanta loses bid for Niyamgiri project

The Hindu  

The Union Environment Ministry has taken a decision in two high profile cases, rejecting the forest clearance for Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha, and renewing the stand-alone environmental clearance for Posco’s eight million tonnes per annum steel plant. The rejection of Vedanta’s proposal to dig in the Niyamgiri hills came after 12 village councils of Dongriya …

Vedanta, L&T tie-up may bail out Lanjigarh refinery
11 years, 4 months ago

Vedanta, L&T tie-up may bail out Lanjigarh refinery

The Hindu  

Vedanta Aluminum Ltd and infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro Limited, an engineering and construction major, have made significant strides for collaboration in bauxite deposit development which could bail out the bauxite-starved VAL’s refinery unit at Lanjigarh. The two groups on Tuesday approached the Odisha government requesting it to take an expeditious decision on development of two bauxite deposits, prospecting licences …

Possible rejection for Vedanta’s bauxite proposal
11 years, 7 months ago

Possible rejection for Vedanta’s bauxite proposal

The Hindu  

The door could soon be shut on Vedanta’s proposal to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills of Odisha. The Union Environment Ministry has decided that the claim of even one village council for cultural or religious rights over the hills provides the legal mandate to the Central government to reject the proposal under the Supreme Court orders. In a letter …

9th gram sabha rejects bauxite mining in Odisha's Niyamgiri
11 years, 7 months ago

9th gram sabha rejects bauxite mining in Odisha's Niyamgiri

Hindustan Times  

Like its predecessors, the ninth gram sabha will decide proposed bauxite mining in Odisha’s Niyamgiri hills for Vedanta Group’s alumina refinery at its slope on Thursday rejected the proposal asserting the villagers’ religious and cultural rights over the hills. Rejection by an overwhelming nine out of 12 gram sabhas selected by the Odisha government has dashed Vedanta’s hope for getting …

Forest land cannot be diverted for Vedanta project, says Centre
12 years, 1 month ago

Forest land cannot be diverted for Vedanta project, says Centre

The Hindu  

Justifying the cancellation of the environmental clearance granted to Vedanta for the Lanjigarh Bauxite mining project in Odisha, the Ministry of Environment and Forests on Friday said that forest land cannot be diverted under the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006. In its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the MoEF said: “The diversion …

Vedanta to close alumina refinery in Odisha
12 years, 3 months ago

Vedanta to close alumina refinery in Odisha

India TV News  

Bhubaneswar, Dec 4 : Vedanta Aluminium Limited Tuesday said it was shutting down its alumina refinery in Odisha from Wednesday due to shortage of bauxite. “Despite our concerted efforts over the past three months to ensure sustainable supplies of bauxite for our Lanjigarh refinery we have not been able to find any solutiona,” VAL president and chief operating officer Mukesh …

Vedanta plant resumes operations in Odisha
12 years, 5 months ago

Vedanta plant resumes operations in Odisha

India TV News  

Bhubaneswar, Oct 22: Vedanta Aluminium Limited Monday resumed operations at its alumina refinery in Odisha's Kalahandi district after remaining shut for 10 days due to raw material shortage, a top company official here said. "The refinery has been re-started at a reduced capacity of 60 percent after we managed to arrange about 35,000 tonne of bauxite from Chhattisgarh and about …

Vedanta shuts down Odisha refinery ahead of schedule
12 years, 5 months ago

Vedanta shuts down Odisha refinery ahead of schedule

India TV News  

Bhubaneswar, Oct 13: Vedanta Aluminium Limited Saturday temporarily shut down its refinery in Odisha, ahead of its Dec 5 scheduled closure, as it could not arrange for the minimum quantity of bauxite required to continue operations, a senior company official said. "There was no other choice but to shutdown the plant because we could not arrange the required bauxite," VAL …

Vedanta to shut Odisha plant, effects 7,000 people
12 years, 6 months ago

Vedanta to shut Odisha plant, effects 7,000 people

Hindustan Times  

Vedanta Aluminium Limited, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange listed multi-billion dollar Vedanta Resources group, on Thursday told the Odisha government it wants to temporarily shut down its alumina refinery in the state due to lack of bauxite by December 5. Vedanta-says-it-ran-the-plant-at-60-of-its-capacity-incurring-a-loss-of-Rs-3-000-crore-HT-File-Photo “The decision is painful because it will affect the livelihood of nearly 7,000 people including 550 direct …

Locals demand more bauxite for Vedanta's refinery in Odisha
12 years, 7 months ago

Locals demand more bauxite for Vedanta's refinery in Odisha

Firstpost  

Apprehensive about the future of the alumina refinery of Vedanta Aluminium at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, local people observed a bandh demanding bauxite for the company. The people from Lanjigarh and adjacent places like Biswanathpur, Daikhal and Ambadala shouted slogans demanding immediate allocation of bauxite to the refinery which is facing a crisis due to shortage of the raw material. …

SC Hearing On Niyamgiri Vedanta Project Posted To January
13 years, 7 months ago

SC Hearing On Niyamgiri Vedanta Project Posted To January

India TV News  

New Delhi, Aug 23 : The Supreme Court today refused to accord an early hearing to Orissa government's plea challenging the Centre's decision to withdraw environmental clearance given to Vedanta group firm Sterlite for its bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills. Brushing aside the state government's plea for an early hearing to its objections to the Centre's move, a bench …

Another roadblock for Vedanta as HC rejects its expansion plea
13 years, 8 months ago

Another roadblock for Vedanta as HC rejects its expansion plea

Firstpost  

Cuttack: In a major setback to Vedanta Aluminium Limited’s plan for expansion of its refinery and captive power units in Kalahandi district, the Orissa High Court today upheld the Center’s decision of stalling the expansion bid and withdrawing the terms of reference granted to the company. The High Court, however, allowed the company to make fresh bid to obtain environmental …

No green nod for mining in Niyamgiri forests
13 years, 8 months ago

No green nod for mining in Niyamgiri forests

The Hindu  

Union Environment Ministry on Saturday made it clear that no green nod has been given to Orissa Mining Corporation to mine bauxite in the sensitive Niyamgiri Reserve Forests in the State and the status quo remains. The Ministry said the issue of environmental clearance to Orissa Mining Corporation’s Lanjigarh Project has become “practically redundant” as it had withdrawn the forest …

Orissa moves SC against denial of green nod to Vedanta
13 years, 11 months ago

Orissa moves SC against denial of green nod to Vedanta

The Hindu  

The Orissa government today approached the Supreme Court challenging the Centre’s decision to reject environmental clearance to Vedanta bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills. Challenging the Environment Ministry’s order of August 24, 2010, the State government filed an application through Orissa Mining Corporation, contending that the Centre’s decision was in violation of the Supreme Court’s previous order giving a green …

Orissa tribal bodies move court, seek Vedanta expansion
14 years, 4 months ago

Orissa tribal bodies move court, seek Vedanta expansion

Hindustan Times  

Eight tribal organisations from Kalahandi and Rayagada districts have submitted a writ petition to the Orissa High Court against the recent stalling of expansion of refinery project of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd at Lanjiarh in Kalahandi. HT Image In their petition, the tribal organisations have said that the VAL’s refinery at the foothill of Niyamgiri hill at Lanjigarh has transformed the …

Vedanta’s Orissa project nixed
14 years, 7 months ago

Vedanta’s Orissa project nixed

Live Mint  

New Delhi: After five long years of court hearings, violent public protests, Centre-state wrangling and media coverage, the government denied permission for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri in Orissa, settling the dispute in favour of the tribe that’s indigenous to the area. Sterlite is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Plc, a London-listed company, which also owns Vedanta Alumina Ltd, …

Enforcing environmental law
14 years, 7 months ago

Enforcing environmental law

The Hindu  

Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has acted boldly and impartially by relying on scientific expertise and rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. The transparent manner in which the Ministry went about assessing environmental concerns and the impact the project would have on tribal groups …

Orissa may give us alternative site: Vedanta
14 years, 7 months ago

Orissa may give us alternative site: Vedanta

The Hindu  

Vedanta, whose proposal to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, was rejected by the Centre on Tuesday, says the Orissa government “is actively considering allocation of an alternative source of bauxite to Vedanta's alumina refinery.” In a statement, it also reiterated that there were “no regulatory violations of any kind at the Lanjigarh Alumina refinery.” The Union Ministry of Environment …

Hope there's no politics behind decision: Naveen
14 years, 7 months ago

Hope there's no politics behind decision: Naveen

The Hindu  

As Vedanta's plans to mine the Niyamgiri Hills came crashing down following the Centre's decision on Tuesday, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik expressed the hope that there was no politics behind the rejection of clearances given to the company in the past. Mr. Patnaik, whose government has been backing Vedanta's alumina refinery and mining plans in the Lanjigarh area of …

Vedanta sinks over 5 p.c. on LSE
14 years, 7 months ago

Vedanta sinks over 5 p.c. on LSE

The Hindu  

Vedanta Resources on Tuesday sank 5.69 per cent on the London Stock Exchange in early trade, after the Anil Agarwal-led metal giant failed to get an environment clearance for its USD 1.7 billion bauxite mining project in Orissa. Sterlite Industries, the principal subsidiary of Vedanta Resources, too was under selling pressure and dropped 4.22 per cent to Rs. Indian government …

It is ‘no’ to Vedanta’s mine project in Orissa
14 years, 7 months ago

It is ‘no’ to Vedanta’s mine project in Orissa

The Hindu  

After a long drawn-out consultation process, the Union government has finally pronounced its verdict against Vedanta Alumina’s $1.7-billion plan to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa. “There has been a very serious violation of the Environment Protection Act, the Forest Conservation Act and the Forest Rights Act,” said Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh. The Orissa Forest …

Naveen positive on Posco, mum on Vedanta
14 years, 7 months ago

Naveen positive on Posco, mum on Vedanta

The Hindu  

He came, he saw, but the end results were mixed. Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik came to the Capital on Monday with three major items on his lobbying agenda against the Union Environment and Forests Ministry — the Posco steel plant, Vedanta mine and the Polavaram dam. After meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Minister of State for Environment and …

Vedanta project: panel blames Orissa officials
14 years, 7 months ago

Vedanta project: panel blames Orissa officials

The Hindu  

The N.C. Saxena panel, which has asked the Centre not to clear Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Orissa, is scathing about the “collusion” of the State and district administrations, blaming them for deliberate non-implementation of the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats Act in the region. “The district administration's reluctance to comply with the legal mandates of the FRA was …

Don't clear Vedanta's mining project: panel
14 years, 7 months ago

Don't clear Vedanta's mining project: panel

The Hindu  

The Union government should not clear Vedanta's bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa as it violates the environment and forest law, according to a panel set up to investigate the proposal. “The Vedanta Company has consistently violated the Forest Conservation Act, the Forest Rights Act, the Environment Protection Act and the Orissa Forest Act in active collusion …

Panel to probe likely displacement by Vedanta project
14 years, 8 months ago

Panel to probe likely displacement by Vedanta project

The Hindu  

The four-member panel, which holds the fate of Vedanta's bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa, has been given an expanded mandate. The committee has now been given the job of investigating the “likely physical and economic displacement due to the project, including the resource displacement of forest users and the rehabilitation plan.” Open-ended course It has also …

More powers to panel probing Vedanta project
14 years, 8 months ago

More powers to panel probing Vedanta project

The Hindu  

Supported by favourable opinion from the Attorney General, the Environment Ministry has given more powers to its panel probing into the impacts and legal issues concerning the Vedanta mining project in Orissa. The Ministry has amended the scope of the work of the four-member panel headed by National Advisory Council member N. C. Saxena, empowering it to “investigate and ascertain …

Forest Ministry free to say ‘no' to Vedanta: AG
14 years, 8 months ago

Forest Ministry free to say ‘no' to Vedanta: AG

The Hindu  

The Attorney-General has given the government a free rein to refuse forest clearance for Vedanta Aluminium's bauxite mining proposal in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa. Forest Conservation Act clearances for diversion of 660 hectares of land have not been granted to Vedanta and its partner, the Orissa Mining Corporation. Vedanta, as well as certain sections within the government, suggested that …

Centre orders enquiry into violation of mining norms
15 years, 4 months ago

Centre orders enquiry into violation of mining norms

The Hindu  

The Centre has ordered an enquiry into violation of the terms of “in-principle” approval for bauxite mining by Vedanta, a private company, granted by the Orissa Mining Corporation. In a letter, Minister of State Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has asked the Orissa administration to explain how the violation was permitted when there were clear guidelines that “in-principle” approval granted …

A mining controversy
20 years, 3 months ago

A mining controversy

The Hindu  

Opposition parties allege that a bauxite mining agreement between the Orissa Mining Corporation and a Sterlite Group company violates forest laws and affects the interests of the State. A Sterlite Group company, Vedanta Alumina signed the joint venture agreement with the OMC on October 5 for developing bauxite mines at the Niyamgiri hill near Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district and the …

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