03 AUGUST 2011business-standard.com
After Jairam, Vedanta in a patch-up mode with MoEF
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Withdraws petition from green tribunal, makes fresh plea for Lanjigarh project.
Nearly a month after Jairam Ramesh took over as the rural development minister, the Vedanta Group is trying to patch up with the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) to get its projects fast-tracked.
Vedanta Aluminum Ltd (VAL), an associate company of the globally diversified Vedanta Resources Plc, has already made a fresh proposal to obtain environmental clearance for the expansion of its aluminum refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa. It has also withdrawn its case against the MoEF at the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The ministry under Ramesh had cancelled the environmental clearance to Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC). OMC is in agreement with Vedanta Group company Sterlite for mining bauxite at Niyamgiri hills.
OMC’s bauxite mining project falls within the forest land of Kalahandi and Rayagada area of the state, and is part of the Vedanta Group's 6 million tonne per annum aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh.
Nearly a month after Jairam Ramesh took over as the rural development minister, the Vedanta Group is trying to patch up with the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) to get its projects fast-tracked.
Vedanta Aluminum Ltd (VAL), an associate company of the globally diversified Vedanta Resources Plc, has already made a fresh proposal to obtain environmental clearance for the expansion of its aluminum refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa. It has also withdrawn its case against the MoEF at the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The ministry under Ramesh had cancelled the environmental clearance to Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC). OMC is in agreement with Vedanta Group company Sterlite for mining bauxite at Niyamgiri hills.
OMC’s bauxite mining project falls within the forest land of Kalahandi and Rayagada area of the state, and is part of the Vedanta Group's 6 million tonne per annum aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh.
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