India's Supreme Court has upheld its earlier order to reopen Sterlite Copper's Tuticorin smelter, which was closed for environmental reasons, according to a statement from its parent company Vedanta on Tuesday January 8.
The ruling from the highest court of appeal in India has cleared the legal barriers for the 400,000-tonne-per-year smelter to resume operations. Plans to double the smelter's capacity by the end of the 2020 financial year had been met with strong protests from the local population due to environmental...