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BOB MACKIN, VANCOUVER 24 HOURS, OCTOBER 24, 2006 Another week, another Alberta company says it’s sponsoring the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Calgary-based Dow Chemical Canada is pledging between $3 million and $15 million for official supplier status. VANOC communications manager Mary Fraser said it’s a cash deal, but VANOC will use Dow heat-transfer fluids…

Dow Jones Market Watch, October 24, 2006 BANGKOK (MarketWatch) — Dow Chemical Co. (DOW) will move ahead its plan with Siam Cement PCL (SCC.TH) to set up a key ethylene cracker in Thailand on the eastern seaboard. The planned cracker, which will be operational in 2010, will have an annual ethylene output capacity of 900,000…

WebWire, October 24, 2006 October 24, 2006 – Dow Chemical Canada Inc., a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, joins the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) as the official supplier of Insulation Materials and Heat Transfer Fluids. Building on over 30 years of Dow’s support of the Olympic…

Indo-Asian News Service, October 24, 2006 Bhopal, Oct 24 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Tuesday reported seven more cases of dengue fever that has so far claimed three lives in the state. “Of the 13 blood samples sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Oct 14, seven samples have tested positive. Of these, one…

Lamat R. Hasan, India News, October 22, 2006 There are a few mosques here the devout love to give a miss when the muezzin gives a call for prayer – they are believed to be haunted! One such mosque is aptly called the ‘Djinnaton wali masjid’ (mosque of the djinns). Ashu Mian used to lead…

PAUL WYCHE, THE SAGINAW NEWS, OCTOBER 20, 2006 MIDLAND — After nearly a decade of legal action and budget uncertainty, the Midland City Council is poised to consider a $35 million settlement with Dow Chemical Co. over its property tax appeals. The council meets at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall, 333 W. Ellsworth. Dow’s…

FORBES.COM, OCTOBER 20, 2006 MIDLAND, Michigan (AFX) – The Dow Chemical Company said it is planning to jointly develop a liquids cracker in Thailand to produce propylene and other substances with the Siam Cement Public Company Ltd. The cracker is expected to commence operations in 2010, it said. Dow Chemical and Siam Cement signed their…

J R Santo, The Dartmouth, October 20, 2006 Diane Wilson lived a quiet life in her town of 15,000 people on Texas’ Gulf Coast. But even though she had her boat, her bay and her fishing, she said she knew something sinister lurked in the bay’s waters. “I was happiest on the bay and loved…

SANDRA MARTIN, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, TORONTO, OCTOBER 20, 2006 Lindalee Tracey grew up poor in Ottawa and turned to stripping as a teenager. After becoming the central subject of Not a Love Story: a Film about Pornography, she began directing her own documentaries. In 2004, her film Bhopal, A Search for Justice, a scathing…

Corporate Crime Reporter, October 19, 2006 More than 600 West African plantation workers have sued Shell Chemical, Dow Chemical, Amvac and Dole Food Company alleging that the pesticide DBCP caused them to become sterile. DBCP was banned by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1979 because it causes deformities, sterility, cancer and birth defects. The lawsuit,…

Shashikant Trivedi, Business Standard, October 20, 2006 See also this old bhopal.net story, “Plans to turn the Union Carbide site into an amusement park” The Rs 60-crore plan of the Essel Group company Pan India Paryatan Ltd (PIPL) to set up an entertainment park in Bhopal is still on. The Madhya Pradesh government is likely…

International Herald Tribune, October 18, 2006 KANSAS CITY, Missouri Bayer AG has agreed to pay $18 million (€14.3 million) to settle claims it conspired with other manufacturers to inflate the price of certain plastics, the second multi-million-dollar settlement the company has made this year regarding its polymer operation. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum…

The Associated Press, October 18, 2006 Herculex, an artist’s impression INDIANAPOLIS — Dow Chemical Co.’s Dow AgroSciences LLC unit said Wednesday that corn growers will have access to certain insect-resistant traits in time for the 2007 growing season, under an agreement with DuPont Co.’s Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. subsidiary. The two companies, which co-developed the…

William C. Pao The China Post, October 18, 2006 DOW XLA fiber virtually disappears in the base fabric, so that that there is no synthetic feel. It adds move-with-youstretch and low maintenance care to the garment. The Dow Chemical Co. and the Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI) yesterday announced several textile applications using Dow’s XLA…

Sara Zaske, OSU, October 18, 2006 CORVALLIS, Oregon – Robert Lundeen, the retired chairman of Dow Chemical, has pledged $3 million to support an array of programs at Oregon State University, a gift which reflects his lifelong pursuit of learning that began with his OSU education.