Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has ordered Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL) to halt expansion work at its alumina refinery & captive power plant in Lanjhigarh at Kalahandi district, Orissa.
Environmental clearance to the mining leases of 5 ha (major minerals and mining leases of minor mineral of 5 ha which have been operating before 14.09.2006) - applicability of EIA Notification, 2006, dated October 21st, 2010.
Direction under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 regarding 1 MPTA Alumina Refinery and 75 MW Captive Power Plant at Lanjigarh, Kalahandi in Orissa by M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited, dated October 20th, 2010.
THEY were once held up as the three core projects that would catapult Orissa into the big league and as one of the most favoured business destinations globally.
After the Niyamgiri ban, a controversy is brewing in Chhattisgarh over bauxite mining by Vedanta Resources, the UK-based mining conglomerate, in the Maikal hill ranges in Kawardha district with the opposition Congress demanding a probe into alleged large-scale infringement of green and tribal areas and violation of panchayat laws.
Vedanta Aluminium, which is facing a notice from the environment ministry about the legitimacy of its raw material sources, said it plans to obtain bauxite from a government-run mining company in western Gujarat.
CPI State secretary D Pandian on Wednesday said the controversial Vedanta group should not be allowed to continue mining in the Shevaroy hills in Yercaud as the company had violated various laws.
Addressing reporters along with CPI general secretary A B Bardhan at a press conference here, Pandian said Vedanta, which was recently directed by the Madras High Court to close down Sterlite Industrie
