VEDANTA ALUMINIUM REJECTS CRITICISM OVER ORISSA PROJECT
May 1st, 2010
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
VEDANTA Resources, the London-based metals and mining group, is trying to utilise waste from its aluminium refinery in the Indian state of Orissa even as it fights allegations that its operations have caused environmental damage to surrounding hills and harmed local tribal communities.
"In five years we plan to convert this refinery into a zero-waste plant by extracting minerals like titanium, vanadium, gallium and iron oxide from the 'red mud' waste product, and send them to steel manufacturers, electronic industry and titanium pigment ...
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