New Delhi: Vedanta Resources' $ 1.7 billion bauxite mining project in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills is illegal and must be shut down, says an expert panel set up by the environment ministry. The project will not be allowed unless the local tribal communities give their consent and village councils agree to the use of forestland for the project, a government panel said on Monday. The panel has also slammed the Orissa...
Vedanta Resources has proposed mining project in Niyamgiri, Orissa. ...
Activists argued mining at Nyamgiri akin to demolishing Stonehenge. ...