groundWork joins "Global action on ArcelorMittal plants" to prevent them from "greenwashing".

Groups from around the world have formed a coalition called “Global Action on ArcelorMittal” to collectively raise the issues and problems associated with ArcelorMittal’s steel plants. Representatives from South Africa, Kazakhstan, India, the United States, the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and the Ukraine were in Luxembourg, and found that as a collective they could exert some influence, gaining the attention of not only the media but of the company itself.
Prior to the meeting the group had also put together a report “In the wake of ArcelorMittal: the global steel giant’s local impacts” which carefully documents the company’s transgressions in case studies from around the world.
At the same time, in the Vaal Triangle in South Africa, groundWork, the Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance and local residents were marching on the steel plant in Vanderbijlpark. A number of representatives of the company met the protestors outside the plant, and the protestors kept them there for some time with speeches and calls for Lakshmi Mittal, president and CEO of ArcelorMittal and a major shareholder in the company, to meet personally with them. The company has undertaken to arrange this.
groundWork and their partners are committed to ensuring that ArcelorMittal do not simply greenwash their way out of their commitments, but that they make genuine improvements to the manner in which their plants operate, and will continue working together to ensure that this happens.

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