Aluminium Industry

Giving tribals jobs could have saved Vedanta

If it was the inability to resettle 450 families that sealed the fate for Korean steelmaker Posco in Orissa, the failure to give jobs to another 500 families in and around the Vedanta project in Niyamgiri put paid to the aluminium major

Publication Date:

23/12/2010

Source: Financial Express (New Delhi)

Tags:

Vedanta Aluminium, Tribals, Aluminium Industry, Kalahandi, Forests, Mining

Industry

Lack of bauxite resources to hinder aluminium projects

Kunal Bose / December 14, 2010, 0:37 IST

One will not fail to notice the convergence of thoughts of our mines minister B K Handique and Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO of the world

Publication Date:

14/12/2010

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Bauxite, Aluminium Industry, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry

Industry

Responsible Aluminium Scoping Phase

Responsible Aluminium Scoping Phase Main Report, Track Record, that summarises the industry’s environmental, social and governance sustainability-related risks and opportunities. The report also underscores the need for a transparent global multi-stakeholder approach that would complement existing sustainability programmes throughout the aluminium industry.

Publication Date:

01/12/2010

Source: Track Record

Tags:

Aluminium Industry, Bauxite, India, Mining, Human Rights, People, Global, Statistics, Auto Industry, Carbon Dioxide

Environment

Ministry stops Vedanta's refinery expansion

NEW DELHI: The environment ministry Thursday decided to stall the six-fold expansion of London-based Vedanta's aluminium refinery and captive power plant in Orissa citing violation of environment laws and asked the state government to take legal action against the company.

The ministry had issued show cause notice to the company under the Environment Protection Act (EPA) in August this year for

Publication Date:

22/10/2010

Source: New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)

Tags:

Aluminium Industry, Orissa (Odisha), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Kalahandi, Environment, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)

Dams/ Irrigation

Hungary scrambles to build new dam to plug toxic leak

Kolontar (Hungary): Workers raced to build an emergency dam in western Hungary on Sunday as cracks in a reservoir widened, threatening to unleash a second torrent of toxic sludge on the village of Kolontar and nearby rivers.

Publication Date:

11/10/2010

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Rivers, Aluminium Industry, Toxic Wastes, Hungary, Lung Cancer, Health Effects, Dams/ Irrigation

Pesticides And Toxins

Hungary toxic spill reaches Danube

Hungary: A toxic red sludge spill from an alumina plant in western Hungary reached the Danube river on Thursday and crews were trying to dilute it to protect the major European waterway.

Tibor Dobson, a spokesman for Hungarian disaster crews, said there were no reports of fish death in the Raba and Mosoni-Danube rivers affected by the spill earlier, but all fish had died in the smaller Marc

Publication Date:

08/10/2010

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Hungary, Toxic Wastes, River Pollution, Water Pollution, WWF, Industrial Waste, Aluminium Industry

Pesticides And Toxins

Toxic mud spill kills 4 in Hungary

Budapest: Hungary declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after a toxic mud spill killed four people and injured 120 in what officials described as Hungary

Publication Date:

06/10/2010

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Pesticides And Toxins, Toxic Wastes, Hungary, Health Effects, Industrial Disasters, Aluminium Industry, Industrial Waste

Mining

Vedanta Aluminium presents its case before MoEF

In a reiteration of its earlier stand, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) told the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) that it had not breached any regulatory norms at the site of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district.

The company was today called for a personal hearing by the ministry, where it gave the supporting documents.

"Our meeting with the MoEF contin

Publication Date:

01/10/2010

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Vedanta Aluminium, Mining, Bauxite, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Aluminium Industry, Kalahandi

Mining