Bhubaneswar: As the fate of its USD 1.7 billion bauxite mining unit proposed in Odisha hangs in balance, the Vedanta Resources on Wednesday denied violating any laws in connection with the project while replying to the show cause notices served by the environment ministry.

Vedanta Aluminium Ltd has submitted its reply along with supporting documents to both the show cause notices issued by the

Standards not consistent, rules changed midway, it contends.

You are not going by your own rules, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) intends to tell the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) tomorrow.

Also, it plans to say MoEF is applying to VAL a different standard than the one being held for other companies.

Vedanta intends to say so in reply to the MoEF showcause notices of August

N N Sachitanand

The ruling on Vedanta raises questions about the path of development the country should take in future Mining minerals will clearly necessitate clearing some of the forested areas, initially digging up the land and reducing it to waste, displacing those who live in these regions and upsetting their traditional livelihoods, be it farming, gathering forest produce or hunting
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S Kalyana Ramanathan / London September 13, 2010, 0:18 IST

Even as London-based mining and metals major Vedanta Resources struggles to procure bauxite from Niyamgiri in Orissa for its 1-million tonne capacity alumina project in the state, it has managed to find a new source of a slightly lower grade of bauxite in Gujarat.

According to a senior Vedanta executive, the supply of bauxite from Gu

Our policy kept people out of their forests and made them trespassers in their own land
Sunita Narain / New Delhi September 13, 2010, 0:16 IST

The Forest Rights Act of 2006

BHUBANESWAR: The BJP today warned the Government not to think of granting alternate mining lease to Vedanta Aluminium whose credential is doubtful.

Reacting to Vedanta

Bhubaneswar: After the Centre's refusal of permission for Vedanta's mining project, the Odisha government on Wednesday asked the UK-based group to have patience in order to get alternative sources of bauxite for its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district.

Allocating mines to any company requires a lot of time as the state government has to go through different phases.

Therefore, Vedanta

VEDANTA ALUMINA chief operating officer, Dr Mukesh Kumar, on Wednesday met Orissa steel and mines minister, Mr Raghunath Mohanty, and urged him to provide alternative bauxite mines for the company

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government, it seems, is not in a hurry to provide alternative bauxite mines to the UK-based Vedanta group for its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district after the Centre rejected the stage-I forest clearance for its proposed mining project in Niyamgiri.

It has asked the company to have patience to get alternative sources of raw material in Orissa.