Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

Shana Ortman, May 15, 2008 I got to the Midland Center for the Arts at 9 AM, and joined a group of about 20 protestors from the surrounding area. We had signs and posters that said “WE are the human element” and “Deadly Dow Dioxin” and larger than life fish puppets labeled “sick fish” and…

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action For immediate release NEW DELHI, 15 May, 2008 — Prompted by the release of an internal PMO note that cites a Law Ministry opinion that Dow Chemical will inherit Union Carbide’s potential liabilities in Bhopal,…

Padmaparna Ghosh, Livemint, May 15, 2008 New Delhi: A few shareholders of Dow Chemical Co. have complained to the US market regulator that the company did not disclose the risks to its investments in India due to the pending issues related to the former Union Carbide facility in Bhopal. In their complaint, a copy of…

Shashikant Trivedi & Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard, May 15, 2008 The Bhopal Gas Relief and Rehabilitation Department is talking to the Indian Army and the Delhi-based National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) to help remove the toxic waste lying in the premises of the closed Union Carbide for the last 24 years. Last month, the…

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karamchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action May 12 2008, New Delhi: “Irrespective of the manner in which [Union Carbide Corporation] has merged or has been acquired by Dow Chemicals, if there is any legal liability, it would have to be borne…

Indra Sinha, Indian Express editorial, May 9, 2008 Damaged children are still being born in Bhopal. So who’s responsible? Indra Sinha Recently, the UK’s Guardian newspaper published a shot of what looked like a golf bag containing a pair of clubs. These were in fact the shrivelled, twisted legs of 14-year-old Adil, one of hundreds…

Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard, May 07, 2008 DEBATE The two issues that remain are whether Dow inherited Union Carbide’s liabilities and why the government never cleaned up Bhopal after settling with Carbide Scot Wheeler, Director Communications, Dow Chemicals, Midland, US ‘Dow did not inherit Union Carbide’s liabilities. Furthermore, Carbide settled its liabilities with the Indian…

CNN-IBN, May 6, 2008 New Delhi: The night of December 2, 1984 has stretched into 23 years, but the Bhopal gas tragedy lives on in the minds of people and in their bodies. One of the survivors of the tragedy, Rashida Bi says that they are still forced to drink contaminated water as they do…

The Hindu, May 6, 2008 Police personnel preventing Bhopal gas victims from staging a surprise demonstration with their children outside the Prime Minister’s residence in New Delhi on Monday. NEW DELHI: More than 40 gas-affected children from Bhopal virtually knocked at the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s door at Race Course Road to draw his attention…

Rediff.com, May 6, 2008 Dominique Lapierre, author of Five Minutes Past Midnight, a book on the tragedy that visited Bhopal in the midnight of December 2, 1984, talks to Sreelatha Menon on the continuing suffering and neglect of the survivors of the Union Carbide gas leak. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan on Monday. You…

Thaindian.com, May 5, 2008 New Delhi(IANS): Expressing solidarity with the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, French author and activist Dominique Lapierre has said the children growing up in the affected area are drinking “poisoned water”. After visiting the survivors who were protesting near Jantar Mantar here Sunday evening, Lapierre has requested Prime Minister…

Ashok Sharma, Associated Press Writer, Boston Globe, May 5, 2008 Nida, 10 months old, an allegedly Bhopal gas leak disaster victim’s deformed daughter, looks out from the window of a bus after being arrested along with her parents from outside Indian prime minister’s house, in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 5, 2008. More than 40…

BBC News, May 5, 2008 Bhopal protesters say babies born since the disaster suffer illnesses Police in India’s capital have detained dozens of protesters demanding more help for victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster, at Bhopal in 1984. They were briefly taken into custody after an unauthorised protest outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s office.…

Thaindian News, May 5, 2008 New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) At least 70 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy, including 40 children, were detained Monday as they staged a protest outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s residence seeking government-redressal of their grievances. Braving the risks of holding a demonstration in a high-security zone, the…