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* the [[Jharkhand Aluminium power station]], a 900MW plant to supply the proposed Jharkhand Aluminium smelter at Sonahatu, fifty-five kilometers from Ranchi. Hindalco states that "in a joint venture, with [[Tata Power]], we own a Coal Mine (Tubed) in the Auranga coal fields at Jharkhand. The coal mine has a capacity of 6 million tpa." The company states that the project is expected to be commissioned in mid-2015.
==Coal ash breach==
On August 16, 2012, the Odisha State Pollution Control Board ordered closure of the Hindalco power plant due to a breach in its ash pond causing damage to nearby crop areas. Water Initiatives Odisha reported that the company only shut down one 67.5 MW of the 367.5 MW plant.<ref>Ranjan Panda, [http://www.scribd.com/doc/103412070/WIO-Update-I-on-Hindalco-Ash-Pond-Breach-20th-August-2012 "Pollution Control Board is playing with community health and water sources,"] Water Initiatives Odisha, August 20, 2012.</ref>
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