Steel Valley communities take on ArcelorMittal SA

Group seeks advice on claims

ports including test results of pollution levels, and environment and human health risks at the Vanderbijlpark works between 2000 and 2002.

It also includes plans to address this pollution and rehabilitate Amsa’s sites over a 20year period. The community claims the company has ignored these reports.

In 2011, Veja, through its attorneys from the non-profit organisation Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), submitted a request in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act for Amsa’s plan.

PHOTO: SIMPHIWE MBOKAZI Bobby Peek (left), a director at Groundworks, and Victor Munnik from Wits University during a media briefing on the 2003 ArcelorMittal SA environmental master plan yesterday. The communities want the firm to compensate pollution victims.