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Banks fall for ArcelorMittal’s shiny claims and finance its dirty flames
Don’t be fooled by ArcelorMittal's “low carbon” sponsorship of the Olympic Games
Yesterday, on the eve of the Olympic torch arriving in Marseille, community defenders from Liberia, South Africa, Brazil, and Mexico held their very own torch ceremony with local residents of Fos-sur-Mer in front of ArcelorMittal’s enormous coal-fired steel plant in Southern France. Instead of the pristine shiny “low carbon steel” Olympic torch which has been manufactured by ArcelorMittal…