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10 Feb 2011

Author:
CEE Bankwatch Network

Hundreds to protest against ArcelorMittal in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hundreds of people are expected to attend a protest against illegal levels of air pollution from the local ArcelorMittal steel mill...The action...is supported by...NGOs Dosta! and Zenica Eko-Forum. The protest follows a similar one...[a]ttended by roughly five hundred people...The two protests...were triggered by particularly high emission levels in January...the sulphur dioxide concentration reached alarm levels on 19 days last month. Pippa Gallop from CEE Bankwatch...explains..."In 2005, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approved a 25 million euros loan for ArcelorMittal...The money was conditioned on the implementation of environmental investments. But, in more than five years, we have seen no improvements in air quality -- on the contrary...[W]hat's the benefit if the local people's health is destroyed,”...