Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

The game is afoot: the PMO’s office appears to have made a significant move in its attempts to satisfy the wishes of the Dow Chemical company. As anticipated, the Law Ministry has prepared a note asserting that “the government can opt to settle out of court with Dow Chemicals as the latter does not own…

Arnab Pratim Dutta, Down To Earth, September 26, 2007 SURYA SEN / CSE Paying for poison: CBI on the lookout for other errant officials De-nocil, an India subsidiary of Dow Chemicals, is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (cbi) for its role in bribing Indian officials at the Union ministry of agriculture to…

Triumph from disaster Stephen Moss, The Guardian, Wednesday September 26, 2007 Indra Sinha has been campaigning about the poisoned city of Bhopal since 1993. But how did he come to write a Booker-shortlisted novel about it? He tells Stephen Moss about his schizophrenic friend, giving up a cosy career in advertising, and a young man…

Indra Sinha, Man Booker Website, September 25, 2007 Indra Sinha explains the story behind Animal’s People Congratulations on being shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Where were you when you got the news today and how did it feel? I’d flown over from Toulouse for the shortlist party, not knowing whether Animal’s…

The Economic Times, 10 Sep, 2007 Just in case ministers had briefly forgotten what rewards await them if they will only allow themselves to yield to temptation, tantalising, coquettish Dow is flaunting its charms Delhi-wards once more. In what amounts to a ‘dance of the corporate veils’, all the PMO’s office need do to gain…

Praful Bidwai, IPS, Sep 10 2007 NEW DELHI – A generation after the world’s worst ever industrial disaster occurred at a U.S. multinational-owned pesticide plant in Bhopal, central India, responsibility continues to be evaded on cleaning up thousands of tonnes of toxic chemicals that have contaminated the soil and water in the vicinity.

Nitin Sethi & Akshaya Mukul, Times of India, 6 Sep 2007 NEW DELHI: As government moves fast to help Dow Chemicals invest in India, a sharp difference of opinion has risen between the ministries of law and chemicals on whether the chemicals giant could be held legally liable for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy clean-up.

The following article contains no quotes from either government or Dow sources and appears to be a plant aimed at softening public opinion to the idea of Dow paying a sum of money and then walking away from its legal obligations under the polluter pays principle. Both in principle and in defence of the need…

Mukesh Jagota, Market Watch, August 31, 2007 NEW DELHI — The Indian government Friday said it hasn’t reached a deal with Dow Chemicals Co. on the payment for cleaning up the site of the 1984 Bhopal poisonous gas leak.

Staff Reporter, The Pioneer, 24 August 2007 Bhopal gas tragedy victims unhappy with 123 Agreement… say it may used as a tool to pressurise Government on Dow Chemicals application Bhopal: While, the impasse between the Left and the Congress on the nuclear deal continuing, it seems that the 123 Agreement has suddenly turned more than…

In the years it was preparing to swallow and digest the fugitive from natural and literal justice, Union Carbide, The Dow Chemical Company spent $200,000 through its Indian subsidiary Dow-Nocil on bribes for Indian officials. As a result, Dow Agrochemical brands such as Dursban – containing the compound Chlorpyrifos, linked to severe health problems in…

New India Press, August 20, 2007 COIMBATORE: ‘We need to have worldwide reference materials of chemical disasters and establish a global specimen banking in India to meet the challenges, said scientist of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Padmashri Dr S Sriramachari, who was one of the chief investigators of the ‘Bhopal gas tragedy’, here…

The Hindu, Monday, Aug 20, 2007 An investigator of Bhopal gas leak tragedy recalls his experiences COIMBATORE: The tragedy of the loss of humans and animals were brought alive by one of the key members of the investigation of the Union Carbide of India Limited, otherwise known as the Bhopal gas leak tragedy that occurred…