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Dow’s Legacy in Bhopal
Dow’s Liabilites: Overview Dow Chemical and Union Carbide claim that it has no liability for the Bhopal disaster. They are simply not telling the truth. Eight years after they bought Union Carbide, two court cases remain pending: one civil, heard in the Southern District federal court in New York, the other criminal, heard before the…
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Dow: The Civil Case
The Civil Case: Environmental Liability The Contamination Keen to distance itself from the disaster, Union Carbide fled India abandoning tons of toxic waste strewn in and around the factory site. According to former UCIL workers, for years before the disaster, massive amounts of chemicals – including pesticides, solvents, catalysts and wastes – were routinely dumped…
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Face the law: Bhopal Survivors Tell Union Carbide, Anderson
Press Statement August 6th, 2009 Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action While welcoming the Bhopal court’s order to the Indian Government to renew efforts to produce Warren Anderson, survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal today said Anderson…
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Arrest Carbide chairman Warren Anderson: Bhopal Court Orders CBI
31 July, 2009. BHOPAL — Survivors of the Bhopal disaster today danced on the streets after hearing news that the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to arrest Mr. Warren Anderson and produce him before the court without delay. Mr. Anderson, former chairman of Union Carbide Corporation and the prime…
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India orders arrest of American in Bhopal gas leak
NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press, July 31, 2009 NEW DELHI — An Indian court issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of the former head of the American chemical company responsible for a gas leak that killed at least 10,000 people in Bhopal 25 years ago. Warren Anderson was the head of Union Carbide Corp. when…
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US Congressmen tell Dow to clean up Bhopal
Ranjit Devraj, IPS, June 18, 2009 A campaign in the United States led by two girl victims from Bhopal, highlighting lingering toxicity left behind by the 1984 gas disaster in their city, has paid off with a group of 27 members of the U.S. Congress asking Dow Chemicals to clean up the site. Sarita and…
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Press release: House members call on Dow Chemical to help those harmed by Bhopal chemical disaster
CONGRESSMAN FRANK PALLONE, JR. Sixth District of New Jersey CONTACTS: Richard McGrath, Tali Israeli (202) 225-4671 Download the entire signed letter here (large pdf file). Washington, D. C. – A broad coalition of members of Congress called on The Dow Chemical Company to finally provide medical care and to make up for the severe economic…
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Press release: Members of Congress tell Dow to clean up Bhopal
For immediate release: June 17, 2009 CONTACT: Shana Ortman, ICJB Coordinator, (415)-746-0306, shana@panna.org Tony Millard, ICJB Spokesperson, (708)-606-8142, aj.millard@gmail.com Nearly 30 House members support Bhopal survivors’ demands of U.S. chemical maker Download the entire signed letter here (large pdf file). Survivors of the ongoing chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, secured a major victory Tuesday, as…
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Urgent: call your Representative in Congress and ask them to sign a letter to Dow
If you are living in the U.S., or are a U.S. citizen, please take a few minutes to take this action: While in Washington D.C. for the Survivors’ Tour, we met with Congressman Pallone of New Jersey, who has been a strong supporter of the Bhopal Campaign for many years. This year, he has circulated…
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Survivors demand answers from PM over Empowered Commission
March 6, 2009 – 125 Bhopal survivors descend upon the Prime Minister’s Office in Delhi to file RTI requests concerning efforts to fulfil promises regarding the Empowered Commission on Bhopal
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Press release: Over 100 survivors query PM’s Delhi office
One hundred and twenty five survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today filed applications for information at the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Braving objections of over 100 armed policemen, the survivors sought information on steps taken towards fulfillment of the Prime Minister’s…
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West or East, Dow is besieged: company officials run for it in Chennai
10th Feb 2009, Chennai: A group of 75 Bhopalis, including 15 members of ‘Children against Dow –Carbide,’ were in Chennai for the ‘Justice Rocks Concert’. While hundreds of Chennai Youth hummed to the tune of “Don’t work for dirty Dow’, Bhopalis decided to have a protest right at Dow’s hideout in Chennai. And the preparations…
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Bhopalis Stage Die-In at Dow Chem Office in Chennai
CHENNAI, 10 February, 2009 — More than 70 survivors and second-generation victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster staged a die-in protest at the entrance to Dow Chemical-Union Carbide’s office in Olympia Tech Park at Guindy Estate today. Twenty five women lay on the ground with shrouds covering their bodies – symbolizing the 25 years…
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9/11 lawyer offers to mediate Bhopal gas leak case
Indian Express, February 3, 2009 New York: A lawyer who oversaw the compensation fund for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks has offered to help resolve a long-running water pollution lawsuit stemming from the deadly Bhopal gas leak in India 25 years ago, court papers show. Well-known US attorney Kenneth Feinberg has told Bhopal…
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India state to shift Dow site after protests: report
Rina Chandran, Reuters, February 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s western Maharashtra state has ordered a Dow Chemical research center be built at a new location after villager protests over pollution concerns, a newspaper report said, the latest in a series of farm and industry showdowns.