Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

David Glovin, Bloomberg.com, November 3, 2008 A lawsuit against Dow Chemical Co.’s Union Carbide stemming from the fatal 1984 chemical leak in Bhopal, India, was reinstated today by a U.S. appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York reinstated claims dismissed by a trial judge in 2006 and 2007 against the unit of…

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<a href=”TARA BOZICK, Victoria Advocate, October 15, 2008 Mechanical failure causes emissions release, leads to $5,000 penalty SEADRIFT – A Seadrift plastic and chemical manufacturing company must pay $5,250 in penalties for emissions caused by a mechanical failure. The Texas Commission on Environment Quality approved the fine against Dow Seadrift Operations, a subsidiary of the…

Indian Express, October 5, 2008 Pune, October 05 chunk by chunk: Everyone’s eye on Warkaris; Christian and Muslim votes too targeted With Lok Sabha and Assembly elections getting closer, political parties have identified the communities whose votes they will target and set about wooing them. Everyone has expressed solidarity with the Warkaris, who are in…

Industry Week, October 2, 2008 Oct. 2, 2008 — A unit of Dow Chemical said on Oct. 1 it had suspended construction of a research center in western India after villagers complained it would pollute an area they hold sacred. The Indian unit of Dow said “all work had temporarily halted” at the Chakan site…

Niranjana, Asian Review of Books, October 1, 2008 Every reader knows a Worthy Book, about a subject that would make anyone with a pulse weep. The Worthy Book is earnest, and invariably chunky. Reading it is a form of atonement for not joining that protest march. This book would boost your knowledge of the human…

KS Shaini, BBC news, 30 September, 2008 There are no takers for the toxic waste left behind at the site of the world’s worst industrial accident. No way has been found to dispose off the waste In the early hours of 3 December 1984, a toxic chemical leaked from a pesticide plant then run by…

Domain-b.com, September 27, 2008 Mumbai: Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has ordered the Dow Chemical project at Shinde Vasuli, near Chakan, about 25 km from Pune, to stop work for a month, following intesified agitation against the project by local people. The chief minister, who is currently on a European tour, took the decision keeping in…

Calcutta Telegraph, September 27, 2008 Mumbai, Sept. 27: Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh got a taste of Singur when he was forced to order US multinational Dow Chemicals yesterday to suspend construction work in the state following objections from local people that the project would affect the environment. Deshmukh, on a tour of England and…

Economic Times, September 27, 2008 MUMBAI: State chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Friday has issued orders to stop work on the controversial Dow Chemical plant, near Pune, for a month. The project will be reviewed and a decision will be taken after a month, Mr Deshmukh, who is in London on an investment mission for…

Business Standard, September 27, 2008 Appoints panel to look into protesters’ charges. Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has stayed the construction of Dow Chemical’s research and development (R&D) facility at Vasuli-Shinde village near Chakan in Pune district of Maharashtra. While staying the construction work for a month, Deshmukh has also announced the appointment of a…

Sindh Today, September 26, 2008 Pune, Sep 26 (IANS) Followers of the Varkari sect in Maharashtra Friday intensified their agitation against Dow Chemicals to press their demand for closure of the multinational company’s unit near here for alleged pollution. The Varkaris staged a protest in Chakan, Alandi and Khed sub-districts. The Varkaris, known for their…

The Hindu, August 9, 2008 NEW DELHI: Bhopal gas leak survivors ended their four-month-long dharna here on Friday after the Centre formally announced the setting up of an Empowered Commission and promised legal action on the civil and criminal liabilities of Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals. Thousands of people died when a toxic gas leaked…

Calcutta Telegraph, August 9, 2008 New Delhi, Aug. 8: The Centre has rejected industrialist Ratan Tata’s proposal that Indian companies clean up the environmental damage in Bhopal caused by the 1984 gas disaster. Chemicals minister Ram Vilas Paswan today said the Group of Ministers (GoM) handling the case had rejected Tata’s proposal since it effectively…