Category: News on Related Issues
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Maharashtra on the march against Dow
The following report is from one of the organisations campaigning against the proposed Dow R&D facility in Pune. Ed. September 23, 2008 Friends, The agitation against Dow has intensified. Since the arrest of Banda Tatya Maharaj Karadkar on Saturday, there have been continuous protests all over Maharashtra. • Yesterday, protests were held in Thane. Today,…
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Dow`s tryst with a sacred river
Makarand Gadgil, Business Standard, July 30, 2008 Battle lines are drawn here in village Vasuli Shinde on the banks of river Sudha, near Chakan — the new automobile hub in Maharashtra’s Pune district. The villagers and the people of the Varkari sect are on one side, while the state government and Dow Chemicals on the…
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Dow row: Warkari leader dares arrest
Times of India, July 29, 2008 PUNE: After leading an attack on the research and development (R&D) centre of Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd (DCIPL) on Friday, warkari leader Banda Tatya Karadkar staged an agitation on Monday demanding that he be held responsible for the attack. According to the local police, the agitation staged at…
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Torcher of Dow’s R&D centre in Pune fails to get arrested
Statement by one of the organisations fighting Dow in Pune Friends, as per our earlier reporting, Banda Tatya Karadkar Maharaj Karadkar, one of the most respected Kirtankar of Warkari Sampraday (sect) who had led warkaris in destroying the construction of the notorious Dow Chemicals, marched on the Chakan Police Station near Pune to get arrested.…
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Villagers attack Dow’s upcoming research facility
Times of India, July 26, 2008 PUNE: The agitation against Dow Chemical’s research centre at the Shinde Vasuli village, about 40 km from here, took a violent turn on Friday, with a mob of about 250 people going on the rampage at the company’s construction site. The attack resulted in major damage to the construction…
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Villagers barge into Dow complex, torch premises
Express India, July 26, 2008 Pune, July 25: Around 150 people, including some locals from Shinde-Vasuli village of Khed taluka, forced their way into the Dow India complex and torched the premises on Friday. The resulting fire lasted over two hours and was extinguished by fire tenders rushed from Pimpri-Chinchwad. The Pune rural police have…
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Indian villagers burn Dow Chemical building site
Reuters, July 25, 2008 Burnt Dow… the end of a corporate dream? MUMBAI, July 25 (Reuters) – About 100 people worried about industrial pollution set fire to a construction site of a local unit of Dow Chemical Co in western India on Friday, police and a Dow official said. The company is setting up a…
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At least 150 People Hospitalized After Chlorine Gas Leak In Indian Township
Nidhi Sharma, AHN News, May 28, 2008 Jamshedpur, India (AHN) – At least 150 people were hospitalized on Tuesday after inhaling chlorine gas leaking from a Indian car maker’s water treatment plant in Jamshedpur township in eastern India. According to local police, residents of the township complained of dizziness as the gas leaked into their…
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Chemical release closes road
NBC25, May 15, 2008 On the day of its grand AGM in Midland, Michigan, Dow carries on business as usual… ed. Midland County 911 reported a temporary road closure of Saginaw Road in Midland. The closure was a precautionary move due to a chemical release at Dow in Midland. Midland County Central Dispatch reported at…
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Will Pune be India’s next Bhopal?
Indiatime, April 28, 2008 The government of Maharashtra has now given a go-ahead to Dow Chemicals to build a $100 million Research and Development facility in Pune. There are reports that indicate an unusual hastening and extraordinary facilitation of normal procedures to give a green signal to the company which still owes reparations to thousands…
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Bhopal-like disaster averted in Gujarat, claims NGO
newkerala.com, April 8, 2008 New Delhi, Apr 8: A Bhopal gas tragedy-like disaster was averted in Gujarat’s Ankeleshwar earlier this month, an NGO claimed today.
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'State-of-the-art' Gujarat incinerator chosen for disposal of Bhopal's waste goes up in flames
“The protests are more emotional than technical.” So said Ashok Panjwani, director of Bharuch Enviro Infrastructure Limited (BEIL), when the German remediation company GTZ questioned the ability of BEIL to safely handle the 345 tonnes of toxic waste from Bhopal slated to be incinerated there. S P Gautam, chairman of notorious public body the Madhya…
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DOW SETS ARMED POLICE UPON INDIAN VILLAGERS
**LATEST** First of all: THANK YOU to all those who called. Vilas Sonawane of Lokshasan Andolan, Pune, reports that police and villagers have arrived at an understanding that until the report of the Committee is submitted: a) the status quo would be maintained. There will be no further construction or supply of material to Dow’s…
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Dow Chemical issue: Activists demand Lok Adalat
Express news service, February 24, 2008 Pune, February 23 Activists protesting against the Dow Research and Development (R&D) centre in Shinde village in Pune district have proposed a Lok Adalat for a face-to-face hearing with company officials. Around 200 activists from “Remove Dow, Save Pune” movement, which many local organisations have also joined, on Saturday,…
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Chinese workers lose their lives producing goods for America
BY LORETTA TOFANI, SPECIAL TO THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE “Keepers of the Flame”. Picture from Char Broil website. Original story and slideshow in the Utah Salt Lake Tribune GUANGZHOU, China — The patients arrive every day in Chinese hospitals with disabling and fatal diseases, acquired while making products for America.