Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical
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Hindustan Times: 16 countries to commemorate Bhopal gas tragedy
16 countries to commemorate Bhopal gas tragedy – Hinduist Times Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, November 18, 2009 On December 3 it will be 25 years since the Bhopal gas disaster took place, killing 3,500 people instantly. While a number of public meetings, film screenings and marches are being planned in the week leading up…
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Bhopal protest comes to Grangemouth
Bhopal protest comes to Grangemouth from Sunday Herald, 15 November 2009 Dharmesh Shah has come all the way from India to Grangemouth this weekend for a purpose. He wants to stick it to one of the world’s biggest chemical companies. The 26-year old Indian campaigner is outraged that the Dow Chemical Company seems to have…
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Plans for tours of Bhopal site anger survivors
Plans for tours of Bhopal site anger survivors –AFP By Sonma Laxmi (AFP) – 5 days ago BHOPAL, India — Survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster in India’s Bhopal city are outraged by plans to throw open the site to visitors 25 years after the tragedy that killed thousands. Announced this week by state…
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India to allow visits to Bhopal disaster site -AFP
India to allow visits to Bhopal disaster site (AFP) – 1 day ago BHOPAL, India — India will mark next month’s 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the world’s worst industrial accident, by throwing open the site to visitors, an official said Tuesday. Tragedy struck on December 3-4, 1984 when a storage tank at a…
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Bhopal: The Second Tragedy
The Second Tragedy When the Independent speaks of “rape”, the Guardian of “disgrace” and Jon Snow of “a crime against humanity”, they are not talking about THAT NIGHT – but of what has happened since to those who survived it. Twenty-five years after the disaster, Bhopal remains a humanitarian disaster. Their breathless bodies no longer…
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Press on Students for Bhopal in Boston/Cambridge, 2006-2009
Press Releases: Cambridge Council Dumps Dow Chemical, Cites Bhopal (09/26/06) Boston Coalition for Bhopal ‘Dies-in’ Copley Sq. (05/08/06) Articles: Group raises money for Bhopal survivors at MIT (Cambridge Chronicle, 09/23/09) Protesters target owner of Taj Boston (Boston Globe, 04/08/07) City to mull dumping Dow (Cambridge Chronicle, 10/05/06) Activists celebrate victory at City Hall (Cambridge Chronicle,…
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India orders arrest of American in Bhopal gas leak
NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press, July 31, 2009 NEW DELHI — An Indian court issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of the former head of the American chemical company responsible for a gas leak that killed at least 10,000 people in Bhopal 25 years ago. Warren Anderson was the head of Union Carbide Corp. when…
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US Congressmen tell Dow to clean up Bhopal
Ranjit Devraj, IPS, June 18, 2009 A campaign in the United States led by two girl victims from Bhopal, highlighting lingering toxicity left behind by the 1984 gas disaster in their city, has paid off with a group of 27 members of the U.S. Congress asking Dow Chemicals to clean up the site. Sarita and…
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9/11 lawyer offers to mediate Bhopal gas leak case
Indian Express, February 3, 2009 New York: A lawyer who oversaw the compensation fund for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks has offered to help resolve a long-running water pollution lawsuit stemming from the deadly Bhopal gas leak in India 25 years ago, court papers show. Well-known US attorney Kenneth Feinberg has told Bhopal…
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India state to shift Dow site after protests: report
Rina Chandran, Reuters, February 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s western Maharashtra state has ordered a Dow Chemical research center be built at a new location after villager protests over pollution concerns, a newspaper report said, the latest in a series of farm and industry showdowns.
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Dow Chemical R&D centre to be shifted
Express India, February 1, 2009 Pune: Chavan says alternative site for the plant will be decided later The verdict is out on the fate of Dow Chemicals R&D centre that was coming up at Chakan in Pune. The one-year struggle put up by villagers of Shinde and Vasuli against Dow Chemicals has paid off with…
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Dump Dow, Bhopal kids tell NGO
Zubeda Hamid, Indian Express, December 17, 2008 CHENNAI: A group of children from Bhopal, suffering from disablities caused gas leak from Union Carbide in 1984, have appealed to a private trust here to disassociate itself from Dow Chemicals, which now owns the firm.
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Stop! Take a deep breath
Latha Jishnu, Business Standard, December 06, 2008 India’s worst terrorist attack occurred not in Mumbai last month, but in Bhopal 24 years ago – and it’s the kind of carnage that goes unheeded. What determines the gravity and enormity of an outrage? Is it the number of casualties? Is it the brutality with which the…
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Bhopal mourns gas victims
Central Chronicle, December 4, 2008 Bhopal, Dec 3: Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy today mourned their kith and kin, who had a silent death following leakage of about 40 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate from the Union Carbide Corporation’s (UCC) pesticide plant here on this day 24 years ago. Several Non Government Organisations…