Workers Riot At Vedanta Refinery In India

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 9, September 2010

 

About 35 contract workers were arrested after buildings were attacked at the aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh in the eastern state of Orissa on Tuesday.

 

Vedanta received a major setback last month when its plans for a mine to supply the Lanjigarh refinery with bauxite were blocked by the government as the land was sacred to local tribes. Read the full report here.

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