Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical
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Dow unable to shake off Bhopal legacy
Praful Bidwai, NEW DELHI, Jul 9 (IPS) Try as it might Dow Chemical Company is unable to shake off the criminal liability it inherited for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and also responsibility to clean up toxic contamination at the site of the pesticides plant, originally owned and operated by Union Carbide Corporation.
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The pen versus poison
Bron Sibree, The Courier Mail, July 07, 2007 The estimable Indra Sinha IT’S true that Indra Sinha had three lives on the road to writing his novel inspired by Bhopal, Animal’s People. But the 57-year-old advertising copywriter, activist and author says he only ever wanted to write.
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Survivors turn up heat on Kamal Nath
Newspost, Wednesday 04th of July 2007 Bhopal gas victims Wednesday burnt the effigy of Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath here, terming him a ‘traitor’ for his alleged remarks that the investments of Dow Chemicals, that took over Union Carbide, would not be affected in India due to the 1984 tragedy.
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Dow no to Bhopal gas liabilty
MP Central Chronicle, July 2, 2007 Agencies,New York, July 1: In 2001, Dow Chemical bought Union Carbide for $9.3 billion, despite this, Dow has refused to accept moral responsibility or be held accountable for the Bhopal gas tragedy.
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Activists, victims oppose out-of-court settlement
Times of India, 1 Jul 2007 NEW DELHI: There is outrage and shock among thousands of victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, and in colonies surrounding the closed Union Carbide plant, over the move for an out-of-court settlement between the Government of India and Dow Chemical Company on cleaning up the contaminated site as reported…
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If settled out of court, Dow won’t have any liability
NITIN SETHI, THE TIMES OF INDIA, JUNE 30, 2007 NEW DELHI: Documents in TOI’s possession show that an offer by Ratan Tata, who heads the Indo-US business council, to take up ‘remediation’ – in plain words, cleaning up – of the Union Carbide plant site has been picked up by the PMO and top ministries…
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Government tries to cleanse Dow investment of Bhopal stain
NITIN SETHI, THE TIMES OF INDIA, JUNE 30, 2007 NEW DELHI: In a bid to clear Dow Chemicals, the American giant that took over Union Carbide in 2001, of civil liabilities in the Bhopal gas tragedy — said to be the worst industrial disaster in the world — the Centre is making a concerted effort…
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MP court admits plea on Bhopal waste disposal
INDIAN EXPRESS, JUNE 22, 2007 Activist wants decision to dispose off waste at Ankleshwar reversed Vadodara, June 21: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday admitted an application that seeks to reverse the decision to dispose off the Bhopal Gas Tragedy waste at Ankleshwar in Bharuch district. The application has been submitted by an Ankleshwar-based…
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MP court admits plea on Bhopal waste disposal
INDIAN EXPRESS, JUNE 22, 2007 Activist wants decision to dispose off waste at Ankleshwar reversed Vadodara, June 21: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday admitted an application that seeks to reverse the decision to dispose off the Bhopal Gas Tragedy waste at Ankleshwar in Bharuch district. The application has been submitted by an Ankleshwar-based…
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Invisible India: the foul legacy of corporate impunity
LATHA JISHNU, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, BUSINESSWORLD, JUNE 2007 Anger against Union Carbide/Dow Chemical spills on to the Tatas as Bhopal gas survivors demand justice The pavement around Jantar Mantar, just off Delhi’s Parliament Street, is the last hope of the wretched. It is strewn with makeshift camps of the dispossessed, the victims of atrocities and of…
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Travelling graveyard
Ankleshwar: Nandini Oza, The Week, 17/06/07 People resist move to dispose of Bhopal gas tragedy’s toxic wastes in Gujarat A drive down National High-way 8 linking Vadodara and Mumbai exposes one to the gravity of pollution in and around Ankleshwar, one of the main chemical industrial estates in Gujarat. More than one lakh people live…
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The Acid Wash Effect
SHUCHI SRIVASTAVA, OUTLOOK INDIA, MAY 28, 2007 A government/industry nexus is giving leeway to Dow in the Union Carbide wrangle. Why? This is the story of an American MNC, accused of bribing Indian officials and influencing policymakers. It’s about The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), the second-largest chemicals maker in the world and an inheritor of…
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Zach Coffin and Aishwarya Bachchan’s "Bhopal Movie" to start shooting in January 2008
Priyanka Dasgupta, Times News Network, India CAN YOU GAS THE TRUTH? Aishwarya Bachchan comes up for air post-shaadi. The Bachchan bahu plays an Indian-American in search of her father, a plant manager on duty the night of the Bhopal gas oil leak, in an international project. CT detects the leak. While Abiarsh are busy with…
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Dow worker involved in chlorine leak dies, but cause is undetermined. Says Dow, “Our drive-to-zero program is a vision of zero incidents, zero accidents, zero emissions.” And zero truth.
John Lowman, The Facts, May 8, 2007 FREEPORT — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Dow Chemical Co. $10,000 for four alleged safety violations. In a document with an official release date of April 30 but available Monday, Dow is fined $5,000 for two alleged offenses and not fined for two others. The…
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Toxic waste not Ankleshwar’s cup of tea, says German study, but director confident of disposal
Indian Express, May 3, 2007 Vadodara, May 2: It is not just the experts who contended that the Bhopal Gas Tragedy waste cannot be disposed off at the Ankleshwar incinerator. An independent study conducted barely two months ago by German company GTZ based in Frankfurt, raised doubts about the capacity of the Ankleshwar incinerators to…