Etiket: Tata
Port Talbot is also home to a polluting Tata Steel factory. “This is a shithole, but it’s the best shithole,” they say in town
The steel mill staff is like family. Literal. “You either work there yourself or are married to someone who works there,” says Barbara Evans. She has been working at the…
Five activists from South Africa come to see Tata Steel and see many similarities
Special visit to Wijk aan Zee today: five South African human rights defenders came to take a look at the village and the Tata Steel site. The five visitors stand…
Why taking action against Tata Steel is so difficult
Local residents have known it for some time: Tata Steel is bad for their health. A new report from the RIVM confirms this: people living around the factory live on…
RIVM: ‘Research into Tata Steel could be a blueprint for the situation surrounding Chemours’
An extensive health examination such as at Tata Steel is also possible at Chemours. This is reported by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), which last…
Forty thousand concerned citizens: “Close most polluting parts of Tata Steel”
Nearly forty thousand people are in favor of closing the most polluting parts of Tata Steel. This is evident from a petition that Greenpeace presented to State Secretary Vivianne Heijnen…
2,000 people are now participating in a mass claim against Tata Steel: ‘We are not naive, Tata does not make friends’
Meanwhile, 2,000 people living in the vicinity of steel giant Tata Steel in IJmuiden have registered with the Frissewind.nu foundation to join the mass claim against the company. “We will…
2,000 people are now participating in a mass claim against Tata Steel: ‘We are not naive, Tata does not make friends’
Meanwhile, 2,000 people living in the vicinity of steel giant Tata Steel in IJmuiden have registered with the Frissewind.nu foundation to join the mass claim against the company. “We will…
Proven to be harmful, but intervention at Tata Steel remains difficult
What many local residents have suspected for years was confirmed by the RIVM on Friday afternoon: there is a direct link between health damage and emissions from the Tata Steel…
At the Tata Steel Festival, employees and climate activists discuss: ‘I see no future for the factory’
After fifteen minutes, Jelle Zijlstra still wants to ‘throw the bat into the fowl’. The Greenpeace activist has been talking to two young employees of the steel factory at Tata…
The day after an alarming health report, Tata Steel is celebrating for the neighborhood
It’s neighbors day at Tata Steel. The gates are open, there are bouncy castles, carousels and food carts. Anyone who wants can take a guided tour of the thirteen factories…