LONDON stock market-listed Vedanta Resources has won the bauxite mining bid of Gujarat governmentowned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC). The Anil Agrawal-owned company will get 5 lakh tonnes of bauxite from the GMDC-owned mines.
With ample supply from the Gujarat mines, Vedanta can run its Orissa-based refinery with the fullest capacity.
Bhubaneswar: Having personally given its viewpoint before a green panel on Thursday, Vedanta Resources will now have to wait till October 30 to know the fate of its aluminium refinery plant in Odisha which is under scanner for alleged violation of environment norms.
It was not a public hearing but they (Vedanta officials) wanted to explain their views on the issue personally.
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.
The forest and environment department of the Orissa government has written to its Union government counterpart that the site of the proposed Vedanta University Project (VUP) does not fall under the Coastal Zone Regulation (CRZ) area and so there was no possibility of violation of CRZ norms.
ON August 24, Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, uploaded on the Ministry's website the text of his detailed decision rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills.
THE August 24 decision of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) refusing to allow mining in the Niyamgiri hills jointly by the Orissa Mining Corporation and Sterlite Industries (India) Limited, a Vedanta Group company, has given a boost to the movements against displacement of people and illegal mining and land acquisition for various mineral-based industries in violation of land ac
With the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) nixing the Vedanta project at Niyamgiri hills, the Orissa government is now keeping its fingers crossed on the Rs 54,000 crore Posco steel project as the Meena Gupta committee set up by the ministry on Tuesday visited the site of the proposed captive port near Paradip that is to be used by the steel plant.
