IBNlive, Oct 22, 2010
Bhubaneswar, Oct 21 (PTI) Happy over the Centre allowing its 1 mtpa refinery to operate at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) today said it was hopeful of getting permission for expansion of the project to 6 mtpa in future. "As the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) had not either countered or rejected our submissions made during the hearing, we are hopeful to get expansion permission after submitting certain requisite documents," VAL's chief operating officer Mukesh Kumar told PTI. Rejecting the Centre's denial of permission to its expansion proposal as a setback to the company, Kumar said "it was a negative development". On different conditions put by the Centre while allowing operation of its existing refinery, the COO said that the company had no hesitation to meet all "such". "Conditions are always there for big industries. We are and we will follow all pollution norms," he said. "We have already stopped expansion works for last four months," Kumar said.
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