Category: News on Related Issues
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German company penalised for ‘Bhopal sister’ plant accident in US
A fatal explosion in the pesticide manufacturer’s plant in 2008 had led the US environment agency to draw a parallel with Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 While the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy still await the decision of a US Court on Union Carbide Corporation’s liability for 1984 gas leak, a company that manufactures deadly…
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Remember Bhopal Museum – Moving Pictures
Where the Union Carbide factory stood three decades ago — about 2.5 km away on the same Berasia Road now — is a museum; a people’s museum, to be precise. The ‘Remember Bhopal’ museum is symbolically located inside the house of a survivor of the horrific night of December 2-3 in 1984. The double-storeyed building…
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ABSCONDER OF JUSTICE DIES
Oct 31, 2014 Warren Anderson, responsible for the world’s biggest industrial disaster at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India that claimed over 25,000 lives and counting, has died at 92. Anderson had a quote engraved on his desk that said, ”Leader is best when people barely know he exists.” He lived by that rule.
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Times of India: Water in SIPCOT 130 Times Toxic Limit
Sep 18 2014 : The Times of India (Chennai) Water in Sipcot 130 times toxic limit Bosco Dominique Cuddalore: In Cuddalore, High Lead, Cadmium The groundwater in and around the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Sipcot) in Cuddalore contains carcinogenic chemicals and is unfit for human consumption, according to an analysis by the…
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US Environmental Justice Activist Diane Wilson Remembers Her Time in Bhopal
There’s a lot of people who are disturbed about the picture of the young child on my Facebook profile.I am writing this, on the eve of April 28, International Workers Memorial Day, to explain why I keep that picture as my profile photo and also why Bhopal should never be forgotten:
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NDTV Coverage of Bhopal Disaster 2009-2012
In 2009 and 2012 NDTV aired multiple video segments related to the Bhopal disaster and ICJB. Below is a list of all known segments, available to stream via NDTV.com. Also included is one segment on industrial pollution in South India (Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu). 2011-2012 WikiLeaks emails allegedly show Dow spied on Bhopal activists Feb 27,…
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Bhopal survivors support Koodankulam struggle
Observing Shahid Bhagat Singh Divas on 23 March, more than 250 survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster sat on a day-long fast in support of the Koodankulam struggle against the nuclear power plant. Condemning Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s act of charging Koodankulam protestors with “Sedition,” Bhopal survivors said that Bhagat Singh’s…
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Bhopalis praise the honesty of Meredith Alexander
January 26, 2012 Five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today felicitated Ms. Meredith Alexander, who resigned as Chairperson of the ethics committee of the London Olympics Committee over sponsorship of the London Olympics by Dow Chemical, current owner of Union Carbide.
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Local Groups
A number of community and university groups are active across the US. To find out more, click on the following links: Boston
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Bayer finally gives up toxic MIC production in Institute, WV
Saturday, Mar 19, 2011 Associated Press INSTITUTE, W.VA.: For the first time in 26 years, Barbara Oden can let go of the image that has haunted her — poisonous gas leaking from a Union Carbide tank and killing thousands of people in Bhopal, India, in the world’s deadliest industrial disaster.
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CBI moves court for Anderson's extradition
PTI | 09:03 PM,Mar 22,2011 Referring to the extradition treaty of September 14, 1999 between the US and India, the investigating agency asserted that the US is bound by the mutual reciprocity principle of the treaty and is obliged to extradite him.”As per the provision contained in the extradition treaty dated September 14, 1999 between…
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Urgent action: Nitta Gelatin’s police protection for toxic sludge shipments
The Action Council against the polluting Nitta Gelatin India Limited (NGIL) at Kathikudam, near Chalakkudy in Thrissur district in Kerala State has been on peaceful and democratic protests and relay hunger strike since 2008 to invite public attention and government action defending the human and Constitutional rights of the people to live in a safe…
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Why the Vedanta verdict is just new wine in an old bottle
NITYANAND JAYARAMAN Activists are a cynical bunch. When a good thing happens, they wonder why. On August 24, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh issued a well-argued order denying forest clearance to a bauxite mining project by Sterlite Industries, a Vedanta subsidiary.
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Chennai RTI activists arrested for protesting cronyist appointment of Chief Info Commissioner
CHENNAI, 1 September, 2010 — RTI Activists Gopalakrishnan, Siva Elango (Makkal Sakthi Katchi) and Madhav Vishnubhatta (Association for India’s Development) were picked up by Chennai police at 1120 a.m. They were demonstrating against the unlawful swearing-in of the former Chief Secretary K.S. Sripathy as Chief Information Commissioner without an open and transparent process. The three…
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A Twist in the Tale, or the New Copernican Revolution
KAFILA.ORG Even as the rejection of Vedanta’s application to mine in Niyamgiri is being widely hailed as a victory for tribal rights, there is of course one set of very predictable voices, which has leapt in to start damage control for their corporate heroes. Thus one such cheerleader of Capital tells us that the ‘real…