Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

The Pioneer, December 4, 2008 Bhubaneswar: On the No Pesticides Use Day to commemorate the 24th year of the Bhopal gas tragedy which left nearly 8,000 people dead and affected 5,20,000 others, a city-based organisation Living Farms, fighting pesticides, at a discussion on the Bhopal tragedy held here on Wednesday, pointed out that there are…

IANS, December 3rd, 2008 Bhopal, Dec 3 (IANS) People here held rallies, demonstrations and burnt effigies to observe the 24th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, which killed over 3,000 people and maimed several thousand others for life.The tragedy occurred on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, when tonnes of Methyl-Isocyanate (MIC) and other lethal…

ANI, December 3, 2008 New Delhi, Dec 3: To support the struggle of Bhopal gas victims, various organizations, supporting groups and students held a protest here last evening. The protesters alleged that even after 24 years of the tragedy in which 3,800 people died, the victims are still awaiting help and support. The protest was…

IANS, December 2, 2008 Bhopal, Dec 2 (IANS) Hundreds of survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Tuesday marched with torches and held a candlelight vigil outside the now defunct Union Carbide factory here on the eve of the 24th anniversary of the disaster. Thousands of tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) spewed out of the Union…

Joe Jackson & Maeve McLoughlin, EndsReport, November 20, 2008 Nearly a quarter century after the worst industrial disaster in history, the former Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in India is still causing suffering by polluting a drinking water aquifer. Environmental consultants Joe Jackson and Maeve McLoughlin argue that a comprehensive clean-up is long overdue In…

Brian McKenna, Counterpunch, November 20, 2008 “I’m surprised if anybody is surprised by this,” said an outraged Rahm Emanuel, President-Elect Obama’s new Chief of Staff. “This [Bush] administration, from day one, has always chosen polluters over the environment,” he told the Chicago Tribune last May. The event he was fuming over was indeed deplorable –…

Down To Earth, November 18, 2008 Activists of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal played a prank at the chemical export exhibition India Chem to expose the dealings of Dow Chemicals. The activists issued an advertisement in the brochures of the exhibition in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations…

TARA BOZICK, Victoria Advocate, November 5, 2008 SEADRIFT – Diane Wilson relaxes on break from her book tour in the rocking chair of her sun porch in her Seadrift home. Photo Credit: Roni Gendler/ Advocate Staff Photographer Diane Wilson, a longtime environmental activist from Seadrift and author, sits on her front porch with a cup…

International Reporter, November 5, 2008 Interview: Charan Lal Sahu, Adv. Supreme Court. There was a gas leak case in Bhopal from Union Carbide in 1984. On the night of 2-3 December 1984, a Union Carbide Pesticide Plant in Bhopal emitted tones of poisonous methyl isocyanine gas, killing around 3,000 persons instantly and many more died…

Alison Frankel, AM Law Daily, November 5, 2008 A class action alleging damages from contaminated water near the site of the notorious 1984 Union Carbide gas explosion in Bhopal, India, has had almost as many lives as a cat. On Monday, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated…

IANS, November 4th, 2008 New York, Nov 4 (IANS) A New York court has reinstated a case filed against Union Carbide by residents of India’s Bhopal town who claim to have suffered serious health problems due to a gas leak from the company’s plant in 1984, rated the world’s worst industrial disaster. On the night…

Martha Graybow, Reuters, November 3, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawsuit contending that thousands of people in India were exposed to polluted drinking water after the 1984 Union Carbide toxic-gas disaster in Bhopal was reinstated on Monday by a U.S. appeals court, which said a lower court improperly threw out the case. The U.S.…