Friday, July 31, 2009

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Anglican Church in India mine row

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    Bianca Jagger
    • Environmental campaigner Bianca Jagger has called on the Church of England to rethink its investment in a company involved in an Indian mining project.

      Ms Jagger says the operation is taking place on a mountain considered sacred by the tribe that lives there.

    • Bianca Jagger is supported by UK-based campaign groups
    • Vedanta insists the mining project in the remote and inaccessible Niyamgiri hills in the eastern Indian state of Orissa is ethically and environmentally sound.
    • The Church has shares in Vedanta worth £2.5m ($4.1m).

      Vedanta is about to start mining bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills, to be processed at a refinery that has already been built in the area.