Category: Shameless
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Ministers wriggle to avoid becoming Union Carbide’s latest victims
Minister Jairam Ramesh, at a meeting yesterday with Bhopal survivors’ groups, said he was sorry that in July/August 2008 the government had secretly smuggled 40 tonnes of of highly dangerous waste out of the Union Carbide factory in the dead of night and taken it to an incinerator site in Pithampur, to be burned.
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Dow bribed Indian officials with cash, jewellery, hospitality
IANS 2010-06-28 17:40:00 –– A senior central government official and his aides were bribed $32,000 in cash and jewellery while their travel and hotel expenses were also picked up by a subsidiary of Dow Chemicals, which took over the Union Carbide company after the 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy, to push its substandard pesticides in…
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I won’t pay a penny to Bhopal gas attack victims
Our thanks to Shobhan Saxena, for sending us this piece he wrote for his column in The Times of India. ––––––––––––– Because the line between democracy and manipulation is very thin, at times it becomes blurred. Today, this line dissolved completely as the Group of Ministers (GoM) reportedly recommended a number of steps to cool…
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Prime Minister’s Office Right to Information files
Dow’s Congress Here is the proof of the PMO’s collusion with Dow between June 2006 and April 2007. To read the files in Hindi click here. Political backlash On August 9th, 2007, Mr. D.Raja, National Secretary, Communist Party of India, wrote a strong letter on the matter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accusing the PM’s…
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Dow’s attempt to deceive NDTV: notes for editors
NDTV (New Delhi Television) one of India’s prime news channels, yesterday received a letter from Dow spokesman Scott Wheeler claiming that the case to hold Dow responsible for cleaning up Bhopal had been concocted by “activists”. “There are some,” Wheeler wrote, “who continue to try to affix responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy to Dow, but…
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Prime Minister, did it hurt when they took out your eyes?
They must be gone because things that appal the rest of us, you seem not to see. You are blind to the agonies of 100,000 people who are still sick in Bhopal 25 years after Union Carbide’s gases leaked there. Blind to report after report recording the presence of pesticides and heavy metals in soil…
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Union Carbide documents showing that "unproven technology" was used in Bhopal
On 2 December 1973 three documents were presented to the Management Committe of Union Carbide Eastern Inc, a subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation: a two-page internal memorandum relating to the company’s plan to begin manufacturing methyl-isocyanate at its Bhopal factory; supported by a four-page capital budget plan and a forty-four page project proposal. The plan…
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The Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance
BHOPAL GROUPS SUBVERT DOW-FUNDED LIVE EARTH RUN FOR WATER IN DELHI 18 April, 2010. NEW DELHI Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance (HASTA), organizers of the Live Earth Run for Water in New Delhi, revealed today that they were a fictitious group set up to expose the global event as Dow Chemical’s attempt to sidestep its legal…
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Dow and Live Earth
To Bhopalis the idea of asking Dow to sponsor Live Earth was like building a cathedral and then asking the devil to consecrate it. Bhopal supporters in many cities around the world spoke out against Dow’s attempt to greenwash itself by association with a good cause. Amnesty International members in several countries asked Live Earth…
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Kurukshetra Techfest Sponsorship by DOW Chemicals – from Uncooked Gray Matter
Kurukshetra Techfest Sponsorship by DOW Chemicals from Uncooked Gray Matter Dear Alumnus of Anna University/CEG, 25th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy was observed recently. It is with horror we remind ourselves that the victims have not been properly rehabilitated, justice is yet to be done and the perpetrators of that worst disaster are still scot-free.…
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Kids for a Better Future returns to Dow office
Kids for a Better Future returns to Dow office A few weeks after first visiting the NYC Dow offices, Kids for a Better Future members Akash, Gautama and Eamonn went back to the Dow office and delivered thousands of hearts made and collected by kids. KBF members had originally attempted to deliver the hearts on…
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AP: Indians still haunted by worst industrial accident
Indians still haunted by worst industrial accident (AP) – November 30, 2009 BHOPAL, India — Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has…
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PR Opening up Bhopal’s Death Factory is a Dangerous Publicity Stunt: Survivors
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL Opening up Bhopal’s Death Factory is a Dangerous Publicity Stunt: Survivors 12 November, 2009. BHOPAL — Branding the Madhya Pradesh Government’s announcement to throw open Union Carbide’s death factory for public visits as a dangerous publicity stunt, the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal pointed to more than 10…
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Jaipur Foot-in-mouth, as "despicable, perverse" Bhopali children ask charity to return Dow donation
Founder and chief patron of the Mahavir Viklang Sewa Samiti, DR Mehta, is a man rightly lauded for bringing free prosthetic limbs to the poor and destitute of India and elsewhere. A former IAS officer of impeccable credentials, it’s hard to imagine why a man synonymous with the famous ‘Jaipur Foot’ would be striving to…