Vedanta Resources
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Vedanta Resources, a British company, lost a battle to dig an open-pit bauxite mine on Niyamgiri mountain in India. The mine would have destroyed the forests on which the tribal Dongria Kondh people depend and wreck the lives of thousands of other Kondh tribal people living in the area. India’s Supreme Court gave the go ahead for the mine in 2008, but the Kondh peoples resisted and the Indian government eventually stepped in to prevent the destruction of their most sacred site.
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