[T]he Global Action on ArcelorMittal coalition…slated as “blackmail” steel giant ArcelorMittal’s use of the financial crisis as an excuse to demand…delays in environmental measures in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The governments of both [countries] have signed memoranda of understanding with ArcelorMittal to prevent thousands of workers from being dismissed, granting exemptions from environmental obligations…“After a series of accidents in ArcelorMittal’s Kazakh mines in the last five years that have left nearly 100 miners dead…the Kazakh authorities were threatening to revoke the company’s operation licence…[N]ow…they are ready to agree to anything,” according to Dana Sadykova of Karaganda Eco-Museum, Kazakhstan...[T]he coalition has called on the respective governments…not to let the company wriggle out of its environmental obligations.