Bhubaneswar, Aug. 18: London-based Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) on Wednesday denied any mining activity at Niyamgiri Hill. The company is setting up a one-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa
Its indictment of the Odisha Government apart, the NC Saxena Committee, which authored the report on investigation into the proposal submitted by Vedanta for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri hills, hasn
Ending all speculations and making its stand clear, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), which is setting up the one-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, on Wednesday, denied any mining activity at Niyamgiri hill.
BHUBANESWAR: Sharply reacting to the objections raised by the N C Saxena Committee to the proposal to allow bauxite mining by the Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) in the Niyamgiri hills, the State Government on Tuesday asserted that all decisions have been taken as per the Supreme Court directive.
With the four-member NC Saxena committee making recommendations against Vedanta in Odisha, prominent environmentalist and member of Transparency International India, Biswajit Mohanty, has written to the State Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for fixing of accountability on the officers indicted in the report.
The Saxena committee was set up by the Environment Ministry to examine the proposal of ba
BHUBANESWAR: Sharply reacting to the objections raised by the N C Saxena Committee to the proposal to allow bauxite mining by the Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) in the Niyamgiri hills, the State Government on Tuesday asserted that all decisions have been taken as per the Supreme Court directive.
If there is a single conclusion the Ministry of Environment and Forests can arrive at based on the report of the four-member committee led by Planning Commission member N.C. Saxena on the proposed open cast mining in Orissa's forested Niyamgiri hills, it is this: drop it.
Bhubaneswar: Orissa government Tuesday lodged its protest against the Saxena Committee report on Vedanta issue.
The state government, in a letter to the Union ministry of environment and forest, has asserted that Orissa is second in the country in the implementation of forest laws and rules.
After one stop-work order on the Rs 54,000-crore Posco project, a four-member panel appointed by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has dealt a blow to yet another big-ticket investor in Orissa, the London-based Vedanta Resources Ltd.
