London, UK. 14th August 2017. People attending the Vedanta AGM walk past the noisy protest by grass roots campaign Foil Vedanta. The protesters accuse Vedanta of illegal mining in Goa, of increasing harassment, torture and false accusations against tribal activists in Nyamgiri, Odisha, who have used Indian laws to stop bauxite mining of their sacred mountain, eleven years of ruinous and continuing pollution by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Zambia, where they say the company have fraudulently avoided taxes and failed to publish mandatory accounts and other offences. Vedanta is a FTSE 250 Brit
London, UK. 14th August 2017. People attending the Vedanta AGM walk past the noisy protest by grass roots campaign Foil Vedanta. The protesters accuse Vedanta of illegal mining in Goa, of increasing harassment, torture and false accusations against tribal activists in Nyamgiri, Odisha, who have used Indian laws to stop bauxite mining of their sacred mountain, eleven years of ruinous and continuing pollution by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Zambia, where they say the company have fraudulently avoided taxes and failed to publish mandatory accounts and other offences. Vedanta is a FTSE 250 British mining company controlled and owned by Anil Agarwal and his family through a series of tax havens and holding companies and was launched on the Stock Exchange in 2003 with help from the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) who continue to support it. Foil Vedanta call for the company to be delisted and shareholder activists went into the AGM to question its activities.
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