NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's decision to reject UK-based Vedanta's plans to mine bauxite points to tighter enforcement of environment laws, a commitment to playing by the rules rather than a political campaign against mega-corporations.
In a landmark decision Tuesday, the environment ministry blocked Vedanta's mining project in eastern Orissa state because the forest-hills it would have destroyed are intertwined with the lives and livelihoods of local primitive tribes.
