tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52834674780298937052024-02-18T17:38:43.269-08:00Global Action on Arcelor Mittalglobalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-51433392169765387652011-03-04T07:06:00.000-08:002011-03-04T07:07:55.097-08:00BIG company, but small OSHA penalties for workplace fatalities<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>LAPLACE, LA -- "Roxanne Moyer wondered why managers at her husband's worksite would allow an obvious dangerous condition to exist. Workers could be so "close to molten steel [that it] just poured over on them." Her husband, <a href="http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?n=samuel-nelson-moyer&pid=148351275">Samuel Moyer, 32</a> died earlier this month at Arcelor Mittal's LaPlace, Lousiania steel mill in exactly that way. He was fatally burned with molten steel.<br />
Mrs. Moyer sounds like a generous and forgiving soul, <a href="http://www.fox8live.com/news/local/story/Friends-family-remember-pastor-who-was-tragically/Xq2P1awdxEmLYzf1uns6yg.cspx">saying</a>: <br />
<blockquote>'I don't want it to happen to anybody else. And they've already changed things there. We've talked to fellow workers, and they've already put up a shield there and you can't even get that close to it anymore.'</blockquote>I'm not so tolerant. How is it that the <a href="http://www.arcelormittal.com/index.php?lang=en&page=9">world's largest steel company</a>, with revenues topping $78 Billion in 2010, can ignore such a hazard? They didn't do anything about it until <i>after</i> a worker was killed? <br />
Part of the problem is there are no meaningful consequences for employers who violate safety regulations that lead to worker injuries or deaths. Under workers' compensation law, it is next to impossible for a surviving family to sue their loved one's employer. Under OSHA, the <u>maximum</u> penalty for a serious violation is only $7,000. That penalty figure hasn't been updated since 1991; in today's dollars its only worth $4,400."<br />
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-- <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2011/02/big_company_but_small_osha_pen.php">Celeste Monforton</a>, <i>The Pump Handle blog</i><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">photos: Almir Alic</div>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-21871178520811455562011-02-17T08:26:00.000-08:002011-02-17T11:04:30.286-08:00Citizens of Zenica protest Mittal pollution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKUi87WlTuWKptTMAyfz4RqxEoEbLaGRZIeSn_tTyQNCYnzvTj8pQjNeOztts0WpmV_TbxtEWG3CNKxjPlu6ecrNdHgYTmG6bAjulyaqMupRX_CtpPQ42EOUigUQC6ypuEXo3PO-TuUsg/s1600/nsmail-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKUi87WlTuWKptTMAyfz4RqxEoEbLaGRZIeSn_tTyQNCYnzvTj8pQjNeOztts0WpmV_TbxtEWG3CNKxjPlu6ecrNdHgYTmG6bAjulyaqMupRX_CtpPQ42EOUigUQC6ypuEXo3PO-TuUsg/s320/nsmail-4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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The local authorities and environment protection agencies have not officially commented on the current air quality situation and do little to prevent it and protect the health of citizens of Zenica. The local authorities have not responded to the protestors, and the protestors remain committed to their goal of ensuring a livable environment in Zenica.<br />
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- Tarik Mujacic,<i> Global Action on Arcelor-Mittal</i><br />
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<i> </i>Photos: Dado Ruvicglobalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-58270815343514488412010-08-02T10:25:00.000-07:002011-01-21T12:19:17.051-08:00ArcelorMittal fined EUR 6000 for water pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mG4mRGP6Xnxg_MzTtJBlJFHiNnjJepOFReCWsTjyyWX308BhCU2gE_F1h-LU_-AACGmDmMCv-thgLaWny2KfFL9J3LJaxtX6CzNdTeA8Ojfjql1VyWdck48cP80ZrggpW_mfDvXQKoI/s1600/arcelor-mittal-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mG4mRGP6Xnxg_MzTtJBlJFHiNnjJepOFReCWsTjyyWX308BhCU2gE_F1h-LU_-AACGmDmMCv-thgLaWny2KfFL9J3LJaxtX6CzNdTeA8Ojfjql1VyWdck48cP80ZrggpW_mfDvXQKoI/s1600/arcelor-mittal-001.jpg" /></a></div>BOSNIA -- "The Federal Inspectorate has fined ArcelorMittal 13 300 KM [around EUR 6000] for yet another pollution incident in the River Bosna in Bosnia-Herzegovina, just a day after the company reportedly denied that it was the cause of the most recent incident. <br />
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Laboratory analysis of samples taken during the pollution incident in the Zenica area has confirmed that the substances involved originated from ArcelorMittal Zenica's slag landfill. <br />
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Very high pH values, electrical conductivity of TDS (total dissolved solids) and suspended particles were registered, and the confirmed values of the tested quality parameters are characteristic for waste waters from a tailings basin with slag, according to the analysis. <br />
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The results of the published chemical analysis show that wastewater from the slag landfill caused the pollution incident on 15th and 16th August at Banlozi. <br />
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The Agency for the Sava River Basin recommends that the Inspectorate bans the discharge of such wastewater into waterways, or that pretreatment is carried out before its release. The Inspectorate is planning to meet with ArcelorMittal next week to discuss wastewater treatment. <br />
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Pippa Gallop, Research Co-ordinator, <i>Central and Eastern Europe Bankwatch Network </i><br />
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<a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/PR_ArcelorMittal_Final.doc"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Read the report</b></span></a><br />
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<a class="contentpagetitle" href="http://www.bizon.ba/bosna-i-hercegovina/5993-arcelor-mittal-penal-za-ekoloki-incident-13300-km-.html">Arcelor Mittal: Penal za ekološki incident 13.300 KM </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bitno.ba/vijesti/bosna-i-hercegovina/potvrdeno-arcelormittal-kriv-za-zagadenje-bosne">http://www.bitno.ba/vijesti/bosna-i-hercegovina/potvrdeno-arcelormittal-kriv-za-zagadenje-bosne</a>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-89130305384001121392010-06-07T10:56:00.000-07:002011-01-21T11:28:32.461-08:00Government of Liberia and ArcelorMittal complicit in the misuse of county development funds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzzc1Rw-HWUR1fRS5HRxhtYj6Bm96AaOojbd1j0IISZrmAwTMeV0UZ4ga7e7nE6bMXb6upTixESigcbL2LyIfTyZOnIljG-FiWZjhrs0yqX2QbDajQ89cv5t8h_Ax3t15z2UzM3n2-TM/s1600/logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzzc1Rw-HWUR1fRS5HRxhtYj6Bm96AaOojbd1j0IISZrmAwTMeV0UZ4ga7e7nE6bMXb6upTixESigcbL2LyIfTyZOnIljG-FiWZjhrs0yqX2QbDajQ89cv5t8h_Ax3t15z2UzM3n2-TM/s1600/logo.jpg" /></a></div>BRUSSELS, Belgium -- "The County Social Development Fund established by the government of Liberia and ArcelorMittal Liberia is failing to address the needs of communities impacted by the operations of ArcelorMittal in Liberia. This is the<a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/PR_ArcelorMittal_Final.doc"><b> key conclusion of a new report </b></a>released by Sustainable Development Institute from Liberia, Friends of the Earth Europe and Global Action on ArcelorMittal, a coalition of civil society groups tracking ArcelorMittal operations worldwide," <br />
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-- press release,<i> Global Action on ArcelorMittal</i>.globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-49410862203197011082010-03-11T11:29:00.000-08:002011-01-21T12:24:03.126-08:00Rusty reasoning: groups challenge European Investment Bank to justify the latest ArcelorMittal public millions<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arcelor Mittal operations in Zenica, Bosnia. (Adnan Dzonlic)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>LUXEMBOURG -- On 21 October 2009 the European Investment Bank’s board of directors approved a loan to ArcelorMittal worth EUR 250 million for a research and development programme said to be all about bringing environmental added value to the company's European operations. Couldn't a company the size of ArcelorMittal be expected to either fund the project out of its own resources or be able to access commercial loans, leaving advantageous European Investment Bank funding to companies more in need? Frustrated by their dealings with the EIB on these matters, Bankwatch, ClientEarth and Global Action on ArcelorMittal have this week lodged a formal complaint with the Secretary General of the European Investment Bank that questions the rigour and ultimate validity of the bank's pre-loan assessment. Read it <a href="http://bankwatch.org/documents/Complaint_EIB_ArcelorMittal_loan_030310.pdf">here</a> and consider the magnetic pull ArcelorMittal seems to have towards public money.<br />
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--<i> CEE Bank Watch Network </i><br />
<a complaint="" href="http://bankwatch.org/documents/Complaint_EIB_ArcelorMittal_loan_030310.pdf" read="" the=""></a>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-11767182283690382512010-03-03T11:40:00.000-08:002011-01-21T11:45:30.561-08:00EU court dismisses Arcelor challenge against ETS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWK54OL27Bpa52AOxbSsypI9r5WliNN8dfEN_7joe8Y0JxKNuqBFerrB0EdAlidlXxA5LGDXHxlc7Bdl8YCB_PtxoYcAxe9x8QxxmtjUBiGVS3EvvpnQZQ2amJtJ0xZKVtnwJ0fkn1VU/s1600/eu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWK54OL27Bpa52AOxbSsypI9r5WliNN8dfEN_7joe8Y0JxKNuqBFerrB0EdAlidlXxA5LGDXHxlc7Bdl8YCB_PtxoYcAxe9x8QxxmtjUBiGVS3EvvpnQZQ2amJtJ0xZKVtnwJ0fkn1VU/s1600/eu.jpg" /></a></div>BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The EU's General Court yesterday (2 March) ruled against steel company Arcelor's attempt to challenge the rules governing the EU's emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) and associated claim for damages. The Court ruled Arcelor's action as inadmissible on the grounds that only companies individually or directly concerned by EU acts can bring a legal challenge to them. It argued that Arcelor is "neither individually nor directly concerned by the directive," which applies generally to all operators that it covers, including those in pig iron or steel production.<br />
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-- EurActiv.com<br />
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<a href="http://www.euractiv.com/en/climate-environment/eu-court-dismisses-arcelor-challenge-against-ets-news-301199?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2032555af2-my_google_analytics_key&utm_medium=email">Read the whole story </a>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-5801504415747174872010-01-24T11:49:00.000-08:002011-01-21T11:54:31.853-08:00Arcelor Mittal shortlisted for anti-green award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="130" src="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/independent012410.jpg" width="400" /></div><br />
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- "Steel giant Arcelor Mittal's Vanderbijlpark plant has been shortlisted for an infamous international environmental award to be announced alongside the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos this week... The Indian steel giant Arcelor Mittal was nominated for a number of reasons, including that it was not only the largest, but also the filthiest steelworks in South Africa,"<br />
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-- Eleanor Momberg, <a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/independent012410.jpg">Sunday Independent</a>.globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-5394232723142012192010-01-19T11:54:00.000-08:002011-01-21T12:04:01.269-08:00ArcelorMittal’s polluting South African plant shortlisted for Public Eye Global Award in Davos at World Economic Forum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/publiceye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/publiceye.jpg" /></a></div>ZAGREB, Croatia -- "The Luxembourg steel giant ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steel company has been shortlisted along with five other candidates for the Public Eye Global Award to be held in Davos, Switzerland, on the 27th January – the opening day of the World Economic Forum. The company has been selected from over 40 nominees due to its heavily polluting operation in Vanderbijlpark, which is their biggest and most profitable operation in South Africa. The nomination recognises the company’s toxic waste dumping; failure to clean up contamination in neighbourhoods around its steelworks; lobbying against stricter air pollution controls and withholding information from the public that will allow society to better understand the impact of the plant on their health and well-being. The general public can cast votes at www.publiceye.ch until 26th January,"<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/globalaction/pressrelease011910.html">press release</a>, Global Action on ArcelorMittal.globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-59839004997346303802009-10-19T12:05:00.000-07:002011-01-21T12:10:05.277-08:00European Investment Bank: No loans for ArcelorMittal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/eib.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/eib.jpg" /></a></div>ZAGREB, Croatia -- "We have recently discovered that the EIB is considering a loan for steel company ArcelorMittal and that this will be discussed by the Board of Directors this Wednesday, 21st October. ArcelorMittal has an extremely poor environmental, social and transparency record in many countries, including during projects financed by international financial institutions. As the world’s largest steel company we also believe that ArcelorMittal could access financing from other sources, and that there is no added value in providing a low-interest public loan to the company. We therefore urge the EIB not to approve any loan to ArcelorMittal in the foreseeable future,"<br />
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-- Pippa Gallop, <i>CEE Bankwatch Network, Global Action on ArcelorMittal. </i><br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/globalaction/lettertoeib.pdf"><b></b></a><b><a href="">Letter to the European Investment Bank from Global Action</a> </b></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/globalaction/lettertoec.pdf"><b></b></a><b><a href="">Letter to the European Commission from Global Action</a> </b></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/globalaction/eibresponse.pdf"><b></b></a><b><a href="">Response from the European Investment Bank</a> </b></li>
</ul>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-79551540044978198142009-10-12T12:25:00.000-07:002011-01-21T12:29:14.356-08:00Mittal dismisses pollution claims in South Africa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/sadeny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/sadeny.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>VANDERBIJLPARK, South Africa -- "Strike Matsepe used his life savings to buy a small plot of land near the country's biggest steel mill, hoping it would become a thriving farm in his old age. Now, weathered and sick, the 80 year old has had to abandon his dream -- the land and ground water are so polluted his cattle have died and crops failed. On Friday, ArcelorMittal SA, the world's largest steel marker, dismissed allegations of severe environmental damage and unethical business practices at the mill. In 2002, the company took over the 67-year-old plant that residents and environmental groups say has polluted their live,"<br />
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-- Celean Jacobson, Associated Press. <br />
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<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9AUHAO84.htm">Read the whole story</a>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-85648191263918271932009-10-05T12:31:00.000-07:002011-01-21T12:35:00.236-08:00Mittal set to quit $20bn Indian steel project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/chairman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/globalaction/photo/chairman.jpg" /></a></div>LONDON, UK -- "Lakshmi Mittal is close to pulling out of a $20bn plan to build two large steel plants in India – the centrepiece of efforts by one of the world’s most prominent industrialists to expand in the country of his birth. Delays in persuading farmers and others to sell the land he needs for the developments in the states of Jharkand and Orissa are 'unacceptable,' the chairman and main owner of the ArcelorMittal steel company told the FT. 'If we cannot make progress in these two sites we will have to abandon the idea of starting the projects there and look for other places in India for our expansion,' Mr Mittal said,"<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1fdfe98a-b10f-11de-b06b-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1%22%20class=%22style1">Peter Marsh, Financial Times</a>.globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-57314548258525743642009-09-30T12:36:00.000-07:002011-01-21T12:42:21.445-08:00Lakshmi Mittal takes the pedal off the metal<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>LONDON, UK -- "ArcelorMittal, which didn't exist a decade ago, now accounts for 10% of global steel production. That pedal-to-the-metal growth strategy worked until a year ago when the world's economy took a dive. The company, based in Luxembourg, posted three consecutive quarterly losses, the latest at $792 million, and some analysts expect it to post another loss in the current quarter. Still Mr. Mittal says it would have been far worse if the steelmaker didn't shut mills, slash production about 35% and lay off thousands of workers,"<br />
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-- <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125408947885344641.html">Robert Guy Matthews, Wall Street Journal</a>.globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-6469912392887045812009-09-10T13:06:00.000-07:002011-01-21T13:07:15.241-08:00Steelmakers hold millions of EU pollution permitsLUXEMBOURG -- "Steelmakers such as ArcelorMittal have become huge beneficiaries of the European Union's emissions trading scheme, making tens of millions of pounds out of free carbon permits, research shows. Just three plants in Belgium, Spain and Romania, all controlled by Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man, are sitting on 15% of the surplus permits handed out by the EU, according to official figures obtained by the Sandbag environmental campaign group. 'The scale of the benefits enjoyed by the steel industry make it look like the ETS is being used as a hidden subsidy to the sector,' said Bryony Worthington, the founder of Sandbag. The price of carbon has plunged over the last 12 months, partly because the slowdown has reduced output and emissions, but also because the EU handed out too many free permits to industry,"<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/09/european-carbon-trading-surplus-permits">-- Terry Macalister, <i>The Guardian</i>. </a>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-73048770863716402562009-09-07T12:42:00.000-07:002011-01-21T12:46:24.870-08:00Arcelormittal South Africa says worker dies after blastJOHANNASBERG, South Africa -- "Arcelormittal South Africa Ltd, a unit of the world's top steelmaker, said a worker at its Vanderbijlpark plant died on Monday from injuries sustained after an explosion on Saturday, but operations had since resumed. Arcelormittal did not say how much production was lost as a result of the accident, which forced the suspension of operations at the furnace until Monday. It said it had started an investigation into the cause of the blast. The company said the fatality was its first this year following two fatalities in 2007 and two in 2008,"<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSL704394820090907">Shapi Shacinda, Reuters</a>.globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-33026246036500591412008-05-14T12:52:00.000-07:002011-01-03T13:08:27.319-08:00ArcelorMittal under fire as activists demand clean-up<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">200 people marched to protest Mittal Steel pollution in Vanderbijlpark.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>CAPETOWN, South Africa -- "A coalition of activists targeted ArcelorMittal at its annual general meeting in Luxembourg yesterday, to mark the start of a campaign that aims to mould the world's biggest steel maker into a more responsible global corporate citizen. The coalition's strategy appears to be one of embarrassing ArcelorMittal's senior international management to the extent that it will take a hand in improving local conditions across nine countries. Two South African representatives were among those present to highlight ArcelorMittal South Africa's poor environmental legacy at its Vanderbijlpark facility," Ingi Salgado, <i>Business Report & Independent.</i>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-69858734904477662442008-05-14T12:21:00.000-07:002011-01-03T12:52:20.378-08:00Sharp exchange at shareholder meeting in Luxembourg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgar7uHloRvFxz6awiyvfHKXJ8pRbgG637jSCpZjsFvj2nGsvq8R1FFutYVhgyF6sHyVEsWpt6x4qM0IEjfqzQD2A69gWEuPPeQS_9Gg1YwxSj0iqJE2WLdnaFi20wsfBhNp2udvT58tE/s1600/report.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgar7uHloRvFxz6awiyvfHKXJ8pRbgG637jSCpZjsFvj2nGsvq8R1FFutYVhgyF6sHyVEsWpt6x4qM0IEjfqzQD2A69gWEuPPeQS_9Gg1YwxSj0iqJE2WLdnaFi20wsfBhNp2udvT58tE/s1600/report.jpg" /></a></div>LUXEMBOURG -- "A newly-formed coalition of environmental and community groups - Global Action on ArcelorMittal - today released a report showing how local residents and workers around the world pay the price of ArcelorMittal's success. The report was launched at a press conference in Luxembourg to coincide with the company's annual shareholder meeting. It contains nine case studies detailing ArcelorMittal's legacy of pollution, environmental damage, health impacts and poor worker safety. In the report the coalition demands that ArcelorMittal implements environmental and health action plans in consultation with residents adjacent to the plants and plant workers in a democratic manner; Governments should not give ArcelorMittal perverse tax breaks or allow it to dispossess people from their land; and Public financial institutions should not support polluting industry such as ArcelorMittal, which has extensive resources of its own," press release, <i>BankWatch Network.</i><br />
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Read the Report: <a href="http://bankwatch.org/documents/mittal_local_impacts.pdf"><b>In the wake of ArcelorMittal - the global steel giant's local impacts</b></a><br />
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LUXEMBOURG -- At the ArcelorMittal shareholder meeting yesterday, Liz Ilg, Ohio Citizen Action's Cleveland Program Director, asked Lakshmi Mittal, "Why do neighbors of your facilities around the world have to breathe rotten eggs, and children can't play outside in their yards?" An ArcelorMittal official approached Ilg and Phil Pavarinni, a Mittal Steel neighbor from Cleveland, and started to say that we shouldn't be allowed to speak. At this point, Pavarinni stood up and said, "We're shareholders, and we were told that's we're not allowed to speak. I don't know if that's how most companies would want to run their business." After Lakshmi Mittal defended his company's pollution record, Ilg told him, "You should come to Cleveland. Come and breathe the air that we're breathing there." <b></b><br />
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Listen to <b><a href="http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/isg/liz_exerpt.m4a">excerpt from Liz Ilg report by telephone from Luxembourg</a></b>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-76726894979443685842008-05-13T11:33:00.000-07:002011-01-03T11:43:52.509-08:00ArcelorMittal faces criticsAKRON -- "Liz Ilg, an activist at Ohio Citizen Action, said the steelmaker has refused to respond to concerns flagged by local people near the Cleveland plant it bought in 2005 - including letters from more than 526 doctors and nurses detailing health problems linked to air pollution. She says the plant manager last met with campaigners in 2005 but the company had since decided to 'cut that dialogue off and address it only with public relations and no longer with decision makers.' ... 'The EPA doesn't even expect the company to test in every part of the facility,' she said. 'They (ArcelorMittal) plug in their production numbers and voila, they're in compliance every year. So they look really good on paper but in reality they have no idea how much they are polluting,'" Aoife White, <i>Akron Beacon Journal</i>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=526414&c=y">read the rest</a>globalactionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802846855191991003noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283467478029893705.post-27455668646822254432008-05-12T11:05:00.000-07:002011-01-03T12:38:16.523-08:00ArcelorMittal not serious about pollution control: activists<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ArcelorMittal President and CEO Lakshmi Mittal</td></tr>
</tbody></table>LONDON, England -- "ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, faces charges of leaving a trail of environmental destruction in its plants across the globe as environment campaigners plan to descend on Luxembourg next week to protest the company's lack of sensitivity towards pollution control. Protestors will present Arcelor's shareholders at its annual meeting with a 40-page dossier of evidence about the firm's lack of interest in controlling pollution at its manufacturing units across the globe, from Orissa in India to Vanderbijlpark in South Africa, a media report said today... Liz Ilg, from Citizen Action in Cleveland, Ohio, demanded that the company put more effort into cutting pollution at her local works," <i>Daily News and Analysis</i>.<br />
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