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Bhopal gas tragedy victims take out torch rally
IANS, December 2, 2008 Bhopal, Dec 2 (IANS) Hundreds of survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Tuesday marched with torches and held a candlelight vigil outside the now defunct Union Carbide factory here on the eve of the 24th anniversary of the disaster. Thousands of tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) spewed out of the Union…
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On the 24th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster Delhi pledges to detoxify India
PRESS STATEMENT 2nd Dec, 2008, New Delhi: Hundreds of Delhi citizens, civil society groups and supporters gathered at Jantar Mantar to mark the 24th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster today. The evening was marked by expressions in memory and solidarity with the victims of Dow- Carbide poisons. Along with music, poetry, street play, spontaneous public…
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Bhopal gas tragedy victims rue government apathy even after 24 years
ANI, December 2, 2008 Bhopal, Dec 2 (ANI): Even after 24 years of the Bhopal gas tragedy, victims affected by it are still awaiting help and support. Demanding government intervention, the victims said that their long fight for justice has cost them a fortune. “Until now four billion rupees have been spent by these people…
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Bhopal disaster: still waiting for the clean up
Joe Jackson & Maeve McLoughlin, EndsReport, November 20, 2008 Nearly a quarter century after the worst industrial disaster in history, the former Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in India is still causing suffering by polluting a drinking water aquifer. Environmental consultants Joe Jackson and Maeve McLoughlin argue that a comprehensive clean-up is long overdue In…
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How Dow Chemical Defies Homeland Security and Risks Another 9/11
Brian McKenna, Counterpunch, November 20, 2008 “I’m surprised if anybody is surprised by this,” said an outraged Rahm Emanuel, President-Elect Obama’s new Chief of Staff. “This [Bush] administration, from day one, has always chosen polluters over the environment,” he told the Chicago Tribune last May. The event he was fuming over was indeed deplorable –…
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The cursed children of Bhopal
Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, 19 November, 2008 A girl born deaf. A young man with severe diabetes. They were not even alive when a deadly cloud of chemicals escaped from the Union Carbide plant. But the suffering goes on. Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Three years after the accident Mrs Ahirwar gave birth to a son,…
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Fictitious body stings Dow
Down To Earth, November 18, 2008 Activists of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal played a prank at the chemical export exhibition India Chem to expose the dealings of Dow Chemicals. The activists issued an advertisement in the brochures of the exhibition in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations…
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100 children rally against Gas Relief Minister Gaur
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action November 17, 2008 *Press Statement* Over a hundred children from the communities near the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal today set fire to an effigy of the Minister for Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and…
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Unreasonable and proud: Seadrift's Diane Wilson continues her fight for area's environment
TARA BOZICK, Victoria Advocate, November 5, 2008 SEADRIFT – Diane Wilson relaxes on break from her book tour in the rocking chair of her sun porch in her Seadrift home. Photo Credit: Roni Gendler/ Advocate Staff Photographer Diane Wilson, a longtime environmental activist from Seadrift and author, sits on her front porch with a cup…
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US Court reinstates Bhopal Union Carbide case
International Reporter, November 5, 2008 Interview: Charan Lal Sahu, Adv. Supreme Court. There was a gas leak case in Bhopal from Union Carbide in 1984. On the night of 2-3 December 1984, a Union Carbide Pesticide Plant in Bhopal emitted tones of poisonous methyl isocyanine gas, killing around 3,000 persons instantly and many more died…
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Second Circuit Reinstates Bhopal Water Contamination Class Action
Alison Frankel, AM Law Daily, November 5, 2008 A class action alleging damages from contaminated water near the site of the notorious 1984 Union Carbide gas explosion in Bhopal, India, has had almost as many lives as a cat. On Monday, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated…
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US court reinstates Bhopal victims’ case against Union Carbide
IANS, November 4th, 2008 New York, Nov 4 (IANS) A New York court has reinstated a case filed against Union Carbide by residents of India’s Bhopal town who claim to have suffered serious health problems due to a gas leak from the company’s plant in 1984, rated the world’s worst industrial disaster. On the night…
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Victory Against Union Carbide Corp.: Court Reverses Dismissal of Pollution Claims
Rick Herz, Earthrights International, November 4, 2008 Read the full decision here (pdf). On November 3, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated plaintiffs’ claims against Union Carbide Corporation for ongoing, massive water pollution at its infamous plant in Bhopal, India, reversing a lower court’s dismissal of the case. A poisonous…
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U.S. court reinstates Bhopal water pollution case
Martha Graybow, Reuters, November 3, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawsuit contending that thousands of people in India were exposed to polluted drinking water after the 1984 Union Carbide toxic-gas disaster in Bhopal was reinstated on Monday by a U.S. appeals court, which said a lower court improperly threw out the case. The U.S.…