Sterlite employs about 3, 000 people in Tamil Nadu, including about 1, 000 at the smelter.
In 2006 citizens demanded access to the smelter's environmental audits from Mexico's federal environmental protection agency.
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Sources at the national power company say the station will only be built if the smelter goes ahead.
Unemployment is only 2 percent in Iceland and the smelter would be likely to rely upon immigrant labor, he said.
This is great if all you do is run the smelter (as Norsk Hydro does for example, not being an integrated producer).
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The brief glimmer of Olympian Tax Relief in pending tax bills goes in the smelter to be forged into some other tax fix.
The smelter is part of the huge Trepca complex of mines and factories which communist Yugoslavia regarded as one of its prize economic assets.
The power company's information manager, Thorsteinn Hilmarsson, admitted that he could not see how Icelanders would fill the 500 or so jobs at the smelter.
As far as Dr Eeva can tell, therefore, the pollution from the smelter a mixture of sulphur dioxide and heavy metals is not acting directly on the birds.
This week the government claimed that, after fierce fighting in Dushanbe and in Turzunzade, its forces had captured the smelter and that the colonel had fled to Uzbekistan.
The smelter, to be built by Norwegian multinational Norsk Hydro and a consortium of Icelandic banks, is expected to give a good return to its investors if forecast increasing global demand for aluminium exports materializes.
Treatment for the smelter's victims is limited.
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The NZAS smelter was put up for sale last year but looking at the slump in the market, Rio is in no hurry to sell at the moment.
The worst affected is Zitkovac, one of three camps mostly containing children, which is located close to the old smelter.
The aluminium smelter and power plant projects are part of a larger plan to industrialize northeastern Iceland with energy-intensive industries, first dreamed up in the 1950s and pursued by successive governments without review.
The profit margins in shipping being as slim as they are, pilots often have to deal with ships so laden (mostly with West African bauxite for the local aluminium smelter) that they have barely a one-foot clearance from the sea-bed.
Newfoundland, Canada's poorest province, would not let Inco dig up the site unless the company promised to build a smelter and process the nickel in the province.
It also won a contract to provide power equipment for the Emirates Aluminum smelter complex in Abu Dhabi, and another maintenance contract for a LNG project in Russia.
Last year the NGOs forced the power company and smelter builders to abandon a similar, combined scheme in a neighboring delta by exposing the inadequacy of the EIAs they carried out.
From the metals trade which is my daily bread I can tell you that no one is ever going to build another copper smelter in the US ever again.
The main bit is an aluminium smelter at Turzunzade, 65 kilometres (40 miles) west of the capital Dushanbe, which is Tajikistan's main foreign-exchange earner.
To address the issue of conflict minerals, through the end of 2011, Intel had identified 98 smelter sites and visited 48 of them in 16 countries to lay the groundwork for third-party audits.
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State-owned power generator Meridian Energy of New Zealand announced last week that Rio Tinto has approached it to renegotiate the electricity contract for its aluminium smelter at Bluff.
Chinese production will fill much of any global aluminum output gap, but support nevertheless will come from a lack of cheap energy and environmental and political issues, including the time it takes to build a smelter in Western nations, Vazquez said.
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However, it is also applicable in locations where smelter acid is not available by the purchase of sulfuric acid or the manufacture of sulfuric acid from sulfur or pyrite.
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Norsk Hydro also said it would delay the planned restart of idled capacity at its Sunndal smelter in Norway.
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But, even in an era of sophisticated forensic science, definitive evidence can be elusive: in one case, the Serbs burned hundreds of corpses in a lead smelter.
Even today, if you wanted to build an aluminium smelter you would go to where there is the opportunity to generate cheap electricity.
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The majority of alumina is shipped to third party aluminum smelter customers or is sold to customers that process it into chemical products.
However, its Sardinia smelter in Italy continues to function even as the Italian government is frantically looking for a buyer to take over it, in order to preserve jobs.
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