'Victory for Vaal communities as the Supreme Court of Appeals orders ArcelorMittal to release environmental records’, 26 Nov 2014:...[T]he Supreme Court of Appeal [has] ordered ArcelorMittal South Africa...(AMSA) to release...environmental records to the Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance (VEJA), and...pay the communities’ legal costs...The SCA...stat[ed] that “Corporations… must be left in no doubt that...constitutional values will be enforced”...[and] highlighted the “dangers of a culture of secrecy and unresponsiveness”... berat[ing]...AMSA’s “obstructive and contrived”, “disingenuous” approach in which it had “feigned ignorance”...The judgement highlights AMSA’s history of environmental impacts, pointing out that such impacts are of public interest and importance, and do not only affect persons and communities in the immediate vicinity of its facilities...The judgement recognises “the importance of consultation and interaction with the public...[and affirms VEJA’s right] “to monitor the operations of [AMSA] and its effects on the environment”...Samson Mokoena, Coordinator at VEJA, states: “This has been a long struggle. This judgement confirms...that we have a Constitutional right to know what AMSA’s impacts are on our health and the environment.  Polluting companies like AMSA can no longer to try to hide this kind of information.”...