orissa

Campaign 2.0: Turtle vs. Tata, the Game - India Real Time - WSJ

vero — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:40:53 +0100

The Pac-Man-style video game is based on a real-life tussle involving endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtles. India’s Tata Steel has been building a deep-water port along the coast of Orissa, in eastern India, less than 15 kilometers from one of the biggest nesting sites of the endangered turtle. The environmental organization Greenpeace launched the game last month on Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary to protest the project.

Source: Campaign 2.0: Turtle vs. Tata, the Game - India Real Time - WSJ

Vedanta should not be given mining approval: govt panel - Yahoo! News

vero — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:31:09 +0100

A government panel said on Monday UK-based mining group Vedanta Resources Plc should not be given permission for bauxite mining in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

Source: Vedanta should not be given mining approval: govt panel - Yahoo! News

Vedanta’s India mine slammed in devastating government report - Survival International

vero — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:28:46 +0100

In a devastating report, a committee set up by India’s Environment Minister has ruled that Vedanta has acted illegally and with ‘total contempt for the law’; that local officials have ‘colluded’ in the company’s illegal activity and falsified documents; that ‘it is established beyond any doubt that the [mining] area is the cultural, religious and economic habitat of the Dongria Kondh ’; and that to allow Vedanta’s mine would be ‘illegal’.

Source: Vedanta’s India mine slammed in devastating government report - Survival International

Anti-Vedanta Dongria Kondh Tribal Leaders Abducted: Lodu Sikaka And Sena Kikaka - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources

vero — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:21:47 +0100

Two leaders of an Indian tribe’s resistance to a controversial mine have been abducted and are now missing, according to local reports.

Lodu (Lado) Sikaka and Sena Sikaka, two Dongria Kondh men from Odisha, eastern India, have been leading their tribe’s peaceful struggle against a massive bauxite mine planned for their land by British company Vedanta Resources.

Source: Anti-Vedanta Dongria Kondh Tribal Leaders Abducted: Lodu Sikaka And Sena Kikaka - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources

Vedanta AGM

vero — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:46:54 +0100

Vedanta AGM

vero — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:21:58 +0100

Interview with Anil Agarwal, the CEO of Vedanta Resources - NDTV Profit

vero — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:29:44 +0100

Mining giant Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mine in Orissa's Niyamgiri Hills has sparked protests in India and abroad. The environmental ministry, reacting to reports that the mining will impact the livelihood and traditions of the tribals who live in the vicinity of the mine has withheld a final clearance to the mine.

In February this year, The Church of England decided to sell its entire stake in Vedanta, a FTSE listed company. But in an exclusive interview with NDTV’s Srinivasan Jain, the CEO of Vedanta Resources, Anil Agarwal, says he is going ahead with the project despite mounting unrest.

Source: Interview with Anil Agarwal, the CEO of Vedanta Resources - NDTV Profit

Vedanta’s Niyamgiri project delayed as Orissa goes for fresh forest survey

vero — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:04:39 +0100

The London Stock Exchange listed Vedanta Resources has to wait for some more time to source bauxite from the Niyamgiri mines for its 1 million tonne alumina plant at Lanjigarh as the state government has decided to conduct a fresh survey of the forest area to settle the claims under Forest Right Act.

Source: Vedanta’s Niyamgiri project delayed as Orissa goes for fresh forest survey

Now Dutch pensions firm joins Vedanta sell-off - Survival International

vero — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:30:09 +0100

A firm managing pensions for more than two million people in the Netherlands has sold its €13million (US$ 16million) stake in the notorious mining conglomerate Vedanta Resources.

Source: Now Dutch pensions firm joins Vedanta sell-off - Survival International

Vedanta mine threatens Indigenous communities

vero — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:28:43 +0100

The battle for Niyamgiri | Bianca Jagger | Environment | The Observer

vero — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:46:06 +0100

The message the Kondh ask me to take to the Indian government, the chief minister of Orissa, Vedanta and their shareholders is loud and clear: "No amount of financial reward or relocation packages can compensate for the loss of our livelihood and our sacred land"; "Please tell Vedanta that the Kondh do not want the mine to be built."

Source: The battle for Niyamgiri | Bianca Jagger | Environment | The Observer

Orissa - Don't mine us out of existence

SamSam — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:26:27 +0100

The Hindu : News : Orissa tribals suffer human rights violations by Vedanta: Amnesty

vero — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:34:29 +0100

Vedanta Aluminium Ltd’s alumina refinery has led to water and air pollution, seriously undermining the quality of life and threatening the health of nearby communities, some of whom live only a few hundred yards from the refinery’s boundary walls

Source: The Hindu : News : Orissa tribals suffer human rights violations by Vedanta: Amnesty

Don't mine us out of existence

vero — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:25:32 +0100

Vedanta - Mining happiness?

vero — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:33:54 +0000

Don't mine us out of existence

vero — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:38:03 +0000

Protest at the Vedanta Resources offices in London

vero — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:31:21 +0000

Protest at the Vedanta Resources offices in London

vero — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:26:53 +0000

Communities under threat in Orissa

vero — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:36:40 +0000

The real Avatar: Mine - Story of a Sacred Mountain

vero — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:12:51 +0000

Amnesty Blogs: Telegraph guest bloggers : Tribe from Eastern India threatened by British mining giant

damianrafferty — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:58:23 +0100

NEWS from Orissa, the highly impoverished but mineral-rich state in eastern India, of a protest against the British mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc in the state capital Bhubaneshwar.

The demonstration by several thousand tribal people won't have made a murmur in the international press, but it is worth noting since it almost certainly represents the beginning of the end of a magical people.

Source: Amnesty Blogs: Telegraph guest bloggers : Tribe from Eastern India threatened by British mining giant