Category: Shameless
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It is bad science to keep information back
Satinath Sarangi, the Hindu, April 22, 2008 In addition to knowing about and treating their poison-ravaged bodies, the people in Bhopal need research to know what lies in store for the children born to gas-affected and contamination-affected parents. Right to knowledge: A Bhopal gas tragedy survivor sitting in protest in New Delhi.
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Government of India-Dow deal illegal, legal professionals say
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action NEW DELHI, 21 April, 2008 — More than 280 legal professionals, including retired judges and eminent lawyers, have said the attempts by the Prime Minister’s office to grant immunity to Dow Chemical from its Bhopal…
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RTI exposes Dow in Pune
Vinita Deshmukh, Intelligent Pune, March 7, 2008 A factsheet on the Dow R&D project near Pune (Word doc) Intro DOW Chemicals International Pvt Ltd, which has recently released large advertisements in vernacular newspapers of Maharashtra – claiming that its premises at Chakan is an environment friendly Research and Development Centre only and not a manufacturing…
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Irregularities in Dow plant sanction
Khushboo Narayan and Padmaparna Ghosh, livemint.com, 28th January, 2008 A review of documents obtained through the RTI Act suggest appraisal committees have accorded environmental clearances without scrutinizing documents Mumbai/New Delhi: Environmental clearances issued to Dow Corning India Pvt. Ltd’s Ranjangaon plant in 2005 by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) were based on a site…
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Gas ministry "riddled with corruption, apathy and incompetence"
Bhopal, November 28, 2007, Press Statement Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karmchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information & Action Hundreds of victims of American multinational corporations – Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, demonstrated today at the residence of the Minister of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation in…
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Judge who sold out to Union Carbide dies
With death there is naturally reconciliation, a certain amount of forgiveness and a tendency to view a person’s life and achievements in a warmer, more generous way. These are difficult sentiments to achieve in respect of Judge Pathak. The man who presided over what one respected intellectual called ‘The Great Betrayal’ – the $470 million…
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The perfect business plan
Behind One Effort to Tap Into India’s Water Market By PETER WONACOTT, Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2007; Page B1 It seems that somebody at Dow has had a ‘eureka!’ moment. Whilst it’s a given that arms manufacturers thrive while countries burn, the business gains from mass pollution aren’t so immediately obvious. Perhaps that’s why…
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Documents show that Dow Chemical has been pressing India to disassociate the firm from the 1984 tragedy
Jean-François Tremblay, Chemical & Engineering News, August 6, 2007 Volume 85, Number 32, p. 26 Getting Past Bhopal Documents show that Dow Chemical has been pressing India to disassociate the firm from the 1984 tragedy DOW CHEMICAL would like to do more business in India, but today it finds the risks too high. Since last…
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Government assures Dow of immunity in return for investments
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL, JUNE 30, 2007 <a href=”https://www.bhopal.net/dowscongress.html” CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: MANMOHAN SINGH, KAMAL NATH, ANDREW LIVERIS OF DOW CHEMICAL, ROTTEN TATA. CLICK FOR FULL SIZE IMAGE. NEW DELHI. June 30, 2007 — Organisations of survivors of the December 1984 Bhopal disaster today strongly condemned Commerce and Industries Minister Kamalnath for his…
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The Acid Wash Effect
SHUCHI SRIVASTAVA, OUTLOOK INDIA, MAY 28, 2007 A government/industry nexus is giving leeway to Dow in the Union Carbide wrangle. Why? This is the story of an American MNC, accused of bribing Indian officials and influencing policymakers. It’s about The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), the second-largest chemicals maker in the world and an inheritor of…
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Dow worker involved in chlorine leak dies, but cause is undetermined. Says Dow, “Our drive-to-zero program is a vision of zero incidents, zero accidents, zero emissions.” And zero truth.
John Lowman, The Facts, May 8, 2007 FREEPORT — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Dow Chemical Co. $10,000 for four alleged safety violations. In a document with an official release date of April 30 but available Monday, Dow is fined $5,000 for two alleged offenses and not fined for two others. The…
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"CBI probing Dow’s disclosure on bribes"
The Hindu, New Delhi, May 4, 2007 The Government has ordered a CBI probe into US firm Dow Chemicals’ disclosure about paying bribes to officials in India for securing approval for their pesticides. Replying to queries, Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, said after Dow Chemicals in February made the disclosure of paying two lakh dollars in…
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Cops remove protesting Bhopal gas leak survivors
INDIA ENEWS.COM, MARCH 18, 2007 Five fasting survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy have been forcibly removed to hospital by police here for refusing to take medical aid till Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accepted their various long-pending demands. They were picked up while on the 14th day of their fast Saturday and have…
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Indefinite Fast (Day Eleven)/ Right to Life dharna (Day Twenty-four): Gas survivors express solidarity with the victims of police brutality in Nandigram and press for an end to government complicity in the suffering of innocent people everywhere
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, March 15, 2007 One word is springing out of each newspaper, television screen, and radio speaker in India- Nandigram. Industrialization of a town that does not want factories to destroy their farms, it is not something we have not heard before. Then why has it become such a hot topic? Precisely because…
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Cloud of despair in Bhopal: Victims of 1984 industrial disaster still battle health effects from gas leak
I recently came across this article written soon after the merger in which Dow Chemical swallowed up Union Carbide. It is so poignant, to read about friends now dead, the despair caused by inaction and neglect that continues, the hope that the company could be brought to book still alive, despite all that has happened.…