Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

V. VENKATESAN AND VIDYA VENKAT, Frontline, Volume 24 – Issue 23, Nov. 24-Dec. 07, 2007 Bhopalis protest government collusion with Dow, July 18th 2007. Photo by A.M. FARUQUI In June, activists working among the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster obtained certain documents from the Prime Minister’s Office under the Right to Information…

Vidya Venkat, Frontline, Volume 24 – Issue 23, Nov. 24-Dec. 07, 2007 Praful Bidwai and Arvind Kejriwal annoubce an IIT alumni petition against Dow recruitment in October 2007 SHOULD the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) align themselves with big corporations known to have a history of unethical practices? A group of students, faculty members and…

Shashikant Trivedi, Business Standard, November 20, 2007 Bhopal – Around 25,000 families, settled near the toxic solar evaporation pond of the closed factory of the erstwhile Union Carbide India Ltd after the worst-ever industrial disaster in 1984, are hoping against hope to get safe drinking water.

Tannu Sharma, Indian Express, November 17, 2007 NEW DELHI, November 15: Around 15 hospitals and health centres in Madhya Pradesh, exclusively set up for the treatment and care of the persons affected by the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, are catering to people other than the victims, the Supreme Court was told on Thursday.

Download the report referenced in this article, ‘Unfolding Disaster: A Study of Chemplast’s Toxic Contamination in Mettur’ (large pdf). The report is also available in Tamil. Papri Sri Raman, IANS, November 16, 2007 The Kaveri river near Mettur – now ‘critically polluted’ The water of the river Cauvery – one of the major rivers of…

IANS, November 14, 2007 Bhopal’s gas-hit kids held a demonstration to demand social security pension for the families with birth defects, as the nation celebrated Children’s Day Wednesday.

The Hindu, November 12, 2007 BHOPAL: The Gujarat government has refused to allow disposal of toxic waste from the abandoned Union Carbide plant at the incinerator facility in Ankleshwar, according to copies of letters from the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) and the State’s Department of Forest and Environment.

Derek Baron, Central Chronicle, November 12, 2007 One major controversy in the history of Dow misadventures is the ambiguity and sketchiness surrounding its production of Agent Orange for the Vietnam War The Dow Chemical Company, which merged with Union Carbide in 2001, has become the face of the opposition in the campaign for justice for…

Bhopal.net has decided to begin a new game. It’s called ‘Dow lobby Watch’, and it’s so simple anyone can play. All you have to do is spot the words of Dow’s hyperactive India-based lobbyists falling from the mouths of compliant Indian officials. Today’s compliant bureaucrat is Krishna Kant Dubey, a senior official with the Bhopal…

Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard, November 07, 2007 At a time no one is willing to touch the toxic waste left by Union Carbide in Bhopal after the gas tragedy of 1984, one transport company has responded to the tender by Madhya Pradesh’s Department of Bhopal Gas Relief and Rehabilitation to clear the waste — 370…

Calcutta Telegraph, 28 October, 2007 American giants run into IIT backlash New Delhi: Select US corporate giants — long viewed as symbols of America’s military-industry complex — have run into an unlikely hurdle in their plans to recruit and research at the Indian Institutes of Technology.

Business Standard, New Delhi October 24, 2007 See more on the IIT actions against Dow Dow Chemicals, the new owners of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal are facing opposition from a new quarters over issues related to Bhopal gas disaster.

Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, are mounting a strong campaign against Dow’s shameless recruitment programme. A petition, addressed to Professor MS Ananth, Director of Chennai’s IIT, can be signed online here. So far, 89 students have signed a copy handed to the Director’s office. The full version can be viewed here.…

Hindustan Times Editorial, October 22, 2007 If there can be a bigger tragedy than the one that took place on December 3, 1984, in Bhopal, it must be the failure of successive governments to get justice for the victims of the infamous Union Carbide gas leak. On that fateful early morning, a Union Carbide Corporation…