Do we really need the bauxite from Niyamgiri?
Existing mines can meet India’s demand for the next thirty years, at levels three times our current consumption
Private firms made windfall gain of Rs 1.86 lakh crore from coal blocks: CAG
Report names Essar, Tata and Jindal Steel and Power among beneficiaries
Has government weakened its case against Vedanta?
Stand taken by environment ministry in Supreme Court affidavit gives opponents chance to press for mining in Niyamgiri hills
Vedanta's expansion plan hits road block
Environment ministry wants fresh environmental impact assessment for mining giant's Lanjigarh alumina refinery
Kunakadu invokes tribal martyrs at Niyamgiri palli sabha
The fourth rejection in a row for proposed bauxite mining was expected; that a diminutive tribal wanted to remain ‘illiterate’ …
Green tribunal gives clean chit to Sterlite plant
Expert panel finds emissions from Vedanta subsidiary's copper smelting plant in Tuticorin to be within limits; state's contention that the plant …
Foreign Vedanta funds Cong, BJP
Delhi High Court directs government to take action against the parties within six months
Non-tribal Tadijhola rejects mining proposal at Niyamgiri
Palli sabha takes a dig at Odisha government for lack of education and health facilities
Village headmen in Niyamgiri refuse to sign on dates for gram sabha on Vedanta
Demand Palli Sabha on Vedanta’s bauxite mining should include 112 villages
Niyamgiri, in bits and pieces
As Odisha government confines the claims of Dongria Kondh to small patches of forests around their hamlets, the second palli sabha at Kesarpadi …
Serkapadi palli sabha says no to mining in any part of Niyamgiri hills
It is one of the 12 villages identified by Odisha government for holding India's first environment referendum
MoEF changes stand on relocation of Dhari Devi temple for Alaknanda dam
Supreme Court rebuffs ministry for opposing relocation of the temple at a higher level, something its own committee had approved
Steel lobby locks horns with mining firms in Karnataka
Three years after the mining scam that rocked the country, steel producers and mining companies accuse each other of forming cartels to control …
Where is POSCO headed?
Odisha government has completed land acquisition for plant site but proposed mining in Khandadhar hills might stir up another struggle
Niyamgiri still out of reach, Vedanta scouts for other bauxite sources
Biodiverse Gandhamardan where mining attempts were abandoned earlier after massive public protests also on the radar of metal giant
Land bill gets diluted on way to Parliament
Bill provisions now favour government and industry, not farmers, say activists
Three reasons why company v community conflicts take place across continents
Shortcomings in regulatory norms and failure to engage with local communities have disrupted commercial projects in many countries
Forest officials slammed for shoddy evaluation of project sites
Advisory panel members want independent experts to assess large projects
Srinagar hydroelectric project: walls of desilting basin collapse
Houses and fields inundated in several villages; residents had been complaining of water leakage from power channel canal for past one week
Second palli sabha in Niyamgiri deals double blow to Odisha government
Kesarpadi residents cancel government’s settlement of community forest rights; unanimously reject Vedanta bauxite mining proposal
Protests continue at lower Suktel dam site
Villagers fear water will go to mining companies and thermal power plants instead of irrigation
NGT reverses closure order for Sterlite’s Tuticorin plant
Tribunal-appointed committee holds meeting in Chennai; Vedanta subsidiary awaits permission to resume operations
Coal ministry cancels allotment of 18 coal blocks
Government to decide the fate of 10 more coal blocks on February 25
Polavaram fraud
The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened …