法国调查机构 Disclose 周二发布的一份报告指出，全球钢铁巨头阿塞洛米塔尔（ArcelorMittal）在利比里亚北部开采铁矿石的过程中，参与了非法侵占土地的行为，并可能污染了当地的水源。这个西非国家拥有丰富的铁矿石、木材、钻石和黄金资源，但经济依然贫困。报告称，数百名农民的土地被阿塞洛米塔尔侵占；该公司对此予以强烈否认。
Steel giant ArcelorMittal has participated in land grabs and likely contaminated water in Liberia as it mined iron ore deposits in the country's north, a report by French investigative outlet Disclose said Tuesday. The steel giant is a major employer in the small west African country of nearly six million, which is poor despite having plentiful resources of iron ore, timber, diamonds and gold. Hundreds of farmers have had their land grabbed by ArcelorMittal, Disclose alleged in the report, a document heavily refuted by the company.
据该机构报道，利比里亚政府统计显示，有 694 名农民正在等待因土地被破坏或无法使用而获得赔偿，但另有 160 名农民的情况尚未得到当局的关注。
Earlier this year Liberian government mediators counted 694 farmers who were waiting to be compensated for destruction or lack of access to their land, while another 160 farmers on the company's concession had not been taken into account by authorities, the publication said.
阿塞洛米塔尔向法新社（AFP）表示，当地居民可能是为了获得赔偿而擅自在公司的特许经营区内种植作物。该公司称所有关于“因使用私人土地而要求赔偿”的诉求都已得到处理。
ArcelorMittal told AFP, however, that local community members had encroached upon concession lands by planting crops in the hope of securing compensation. The company said that all "claims for compensation for use of privately owned land" had been addressed.
报告中的农民们讲述了他们的遭遇：2024 年 8 月至 2025 年 9 月期间，他们的土地被阿塞洛米塔尔侵占、破坏或遭到破坏。例如，居住在阿塞洛米塔尔采矿区附近的 Gbarpa 村的农民 Dada Konkah 表示，2022 年 3 月他在外出期间，挖掘机毁坏了他的橡胶、可可和鳄梨作物；他最终只获得了 9,000 美元的赔偿，而原本期望的赔偿金额是这个数字的两倍。
Disclose spoke to seven people who said their land had been grabbed, destroyed, blocked or degraded by ArcelorMittal between August 2024 and September 2025. Dada Konkah, a farmer in Gbarpa, at the foothills of two mountains mined by ArcelorMittal, told the publication that in March 2022, excavators destroyed a large portion of his rubber, cacao and avocado crops while he was away.
两年后，阿塞洛米塔尔在当地修建了一座水坝，但该水坝未能正常发挥作用，导致他的农田被浑浊的水淹没；阿塞洛米塔尔拒绝为这些被毁坏的作物进行赔偿。
He was eventually compensated $9,000 but had expected double the amount. Two years later the steel giant built a dam which was supposed to retain water but did not work, flooding his fields with brown water.
受影响的农民们要求获得总计 400 万美元的赔偿，平均每人约 5,400 美元。阿塞洛米塔尔则回应称：“我们不会在未经正式许可的情况下进行任何土地清理活动。”
ArcelorMittal told Konkah he would not be compensated for the destroyed crops, according to Disclose. Affected farmers are demanding $4 million, or roughly $5,400 per person, Disclose said.
“任何关于这些规定未被遵守的指控都会被严肃对待，并将接受审查。”
ArcelorMittal told Disclose that it "does not authorise land clearing activities outside of its established land access, consultation, compensation and permitting processes, and any allegation that these requirements were not followed is taken seriously and is subject to review".- Lead and fluoride -Disclose also detailed chemical contamination of water.
该报道还详细披露了水中的化学污染情况。据报道，位于该采矿区域的五个村庄的居民所使用的河流、井水及水泵中检测出了重金属；这一结论基于利比里亚政府委托独立实验室于2025年1月出具的报告。在所有采集的37个样本中均检测到了铅，其含量最高达到了世界卫生组织推荐水平的63倍；同时，19个样本中也检测出了高浓度的氟化物。
Heavy metals "were found in rivers, wells and pumps used by the residents of five villages located in the mining concession", the publication said, citing an independent laboratory report from January 2025 commissioned by the Liberian government.
然而，阿塞洛米塔尔（ArcelorMittal）表示：“仅凭水样中检测出重金属，并不能直接证明这些重金属与阿塞洛米塔尔的经营活动有关。”
Lead was found across all 37 samples taken, including up to 63 times the levels recommended by the World Health Organization. And high levels of fluoride were found in 19 samples, it reported.
利比里亚因连绵不断的内战以及2014至2016年的埃博拉疫情而陷入极度贫困，是全球最贫穷的国家之一。本文由自动新闻机构生成，未经任何文本修改。
ArcelorMittal said however that "the presence of heavy metals in water samples does not, on its own, demonstrate a direct link to AML's operations".Decimated by back-to-back civil wars and the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis, Liberia is one of the world's poorest ArcelorMittal This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.