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I'm sorry to see it. The pollution is very large. What makes me even more sorry is that this is made by the foreigners who don't have any right to harm and polute others land. It is just very painful to see this. Have you listened to the song House of pain by Deep Purple? It can be downloaded from mp3 search engine http://www.mp3hounddog.com . It is painful just like it.

Agarwal: As far as we are concerned, that mine is not even in our name. The mine belongs to the government and we have just one agreement with them.

This is laughable. The mine and refinery due to their close locations must be linked as one Vedanta project in the manufacture of aluminium. Why build an alumina refinery next to a mountain of bauxite ? The refinery got the all clear the mine luckily has not.

No doubt if they do get the go ahead any environmental impact of the mine will be under somebody else's name as well, just like BP tried to do in the Gulf of Mexico.

Agarwal : I can do only what is right. I am looking to put India on the fast track. For us, for 25 years no mining has taken place and it is the best thing to do for our growth to manufacture or to produce Aluminium.

How is not consulting and infringing peoples human rights the right thing to do ? Also have the whole Indian population been consulted on the question to this being the best thing to do to "fast track" Indian growth or is this a one man crusade ?

I am always surprised by how people can be so blinded by power. There always seems to be this need to compete, even when it will cost the lives of others. I can't understand why there needs to be this 'fast-track' if the bauxite, iron and coal are not actually going anywhere. Why not take the time to extract only what is needed in a way that has a positive impact on those affected by it?

Wonderful idea! Just fired off an email with incriminating snaps of my local Hell Station, and gave them a candid review too!

The way home led across black-earth fields that had just been ploughed up. I ascended the dusty path. The ploughed field belonged to a landed proprietor and was so large that on both sides and before me to the top of the hill nothing was visible but evenly furrowed and moist earth. The land was well tilled and nowhere was there a blade of grass or any kind of plant to be seen, it was all black. “Ah, what a destructive creature is man….How many different plant-lives he destroys to support his own existence!” thought I, involuntarily looking around for some living thing in this lifeless black field.
Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad
trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (original published in 1904)
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This is shame. Why is Shell treating these people as if the land still belongs to the Crown? Are they third-class citizens in their own country? This is not just obnoxius and inadmissible, but its is an outrage, sheer chauvinism and disdain of human life!

I love the 'Shell Shock' slogan!