Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical
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Delhi asks Prime Minister to Walk his Talk as Bhopalis begin their March on Foot to Delhi
February 20th, 2008 – New Delhi Press coverage of the event in the Statesman(pdf) Report by Shalini Sharma Connaught Place is the heart of the capital of India. While government is busy making it the commercial hub of the city, hundreds of students and Bhopal supporters made their way to the Central Park situated right…
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Bhopal survivors march on New Delhi
Al Jazeera, FEBRUARY 21, 2008 Click image to go to the video film About 100 victims of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters have begun a march of more than 700km to the Indian capital, New Delhi, to demand compensation.
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Villagers voice resolve to keep out Dow Chemical
Press Trust of India, Express news service, February 21, 2008 Pune, February 20: Denouncing the state-level committee formed by the government to hear all issues against the setting up of the R&D centre by Dow Chemical near Chakan, residents of Shinde and Vasuli villlages reiterated their resolve to continue the agitation against the company. In…
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Bhopal gas leak survivors begin protest march to New Delhi
AFP, 20th February, 2008 NEW DELHI (AFP) — More than 60 survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak began a trek to New Delhi on Wednesday to press for a clean-up of the toxic waste still surrounding the plant, activists said.
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Over 100 Bhopal gas disaster survivors to foot-march to New Delhi from Feb. 20
Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net, 19th February, 2008 Bhopal: Over a hundred survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s worst industrial disaster, who were poisoned by the Union Carbide’s toxic chemicals, and their supporters will walk about 800 kilometers to New Delhi from here to remind the Indian Prime Minister of the promises he did not keep.…
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Bhopal gas tragedy victims march to Delhi with demands
Thaindian news, February 18th, 2008 Bhopal, Feb 18 (IANS) Bhopal gas tragedy victims and their supporters are set to begin a march to Delhi Wednesday to press for their demand that include the constitution of an empowered commission to plan and carry out their rehabilitation. “The padyatra (march) will start from here on Wednesday and…
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Dow imbroglio: Activists stage walk-out at committee meeting
Express news service, February 15, 2008 Pune, February 14 Addressing the first meeting of the committee set up by the state government to look into the Dow Chemical imbroglio, environment secretary S K Goel on Thursday has asked the company officers to put an advertisement in all newspapers explaining their stand on what exactly will…
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Dow plans blocked by Indian villagers
Infoshop, February 10, 2008 Plans by US trananational coreporation Dow Chemical to restructure its research and development (R&D) activities globally have run into trouble with residents of the Indian village of Shinde, some 40km from Pune in Maharashtra. Dow, one of the world’s largest chemical companies with a market value of $54bn, is proposing to…
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Committee to look into Dow imbroglio
Express news service, February 09, 2008 Pune, February 8 Taking cognisance of the protest by villagers from Shinde against the Dow Chemical Research and Development Centre in their village, the State Government has appointed a committee under the chairmanship of Environment Secretary S K Goel to look into the issue.
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Villagers hold protest rally, say Dow go back
Express news service, February 03, 2008 Villagers involved in stoppng Dow’s R&D construction meet in Shinde Pune, February 2 Around 200 villagers from Shinde and Vasuli villages who are protesting against the Dow Chemical Research and Development Centre gathered for a public rally on Saturday, half a km from the site and voiced their discontent…
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Dow Chemical’s R&D project plan hits another roadblock
A Rs400 crore research and development centre planned by Dow Chemical Co. seems to be headed for fresh trouble with a number of NGOs now joining the villagers in their protests against the centre Sudha Menon, livemint.com, February 2, 2008 Pune: A Rs400 crore research and development (R&D) centre planned by the largest US chemical…
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Dow Chem to turn Pune unit into R&D hub
Look out, from over that hill marked ‘swag’ comes the public relations cavalry… ed. Business Standard, February 2, 2008 Chemicals and polymers manufacturer Dow Chemicals plans to develop its Pune unit into a global research and development centre that will focus on a wide spectrum of products which give it an edge in the Indian…
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Irregularities in Dow plant sanction
Khushboo Narayan and Padmaparna Ghosh, livemint.com, 28th January, 2008 A review of documents obtained through the RTI Act suggest appraisal committees have accorded environmental clearances without scrutinizing documents Mumbai/New Delhi: Environmental clearances issued to Dow Corning India Pvt. Ltd’s Ranjangaon plant in 2005 by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) were based on a site…
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Bhopal tragedy comes to haunt Dow R&D unit, villagers block road to site
Vinod Mathew & Nisha Nambiar, Indian Express, January 28, 2007 Pune, January 27: On January 16, they blocked the road leading to a 100-acre construction site—one that, if Dow Chemical has its way, will be their first R&D unit in India. The project was started in October.