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Plaquemine, Westside Bureau, September 16, 2006 PLAQUEMINE — Two of three contract workers injured in an electrical arc fire at Dow Chemical’s Louisiana Operations site remain under treatment in local burn treatment unit, a company spokesman said Friday. The third worker injured was released Thursday night, the spokesman said. An arc fire occurs when electrical…

JOHN A. COLVIN, THE ADVOCATE, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 A flash fire at Dow Chemical’s Louisiana Operations site in Plaquemine sent three contract employees to the hospital Thursday. The employees were part of a line crew performing preventive maintenance following a recent electrical line failure as a result of lightning, Dow spokesman Gary Cambre said. Dow…

Marcela Valente, Tierramérica, Argentina, September 14, 2006 BUENOS AIRES, Sep 14 (IPS) – Three thousand people live below the smoke stacks of petroleum refineries and alongside chemical storage sites, among rubbish and debris, and foul bodies of water, in “Villa Inflamable”, a slum along the banks of the Matanza-Riachuelo river, which runs across the Argentine…

Staff Reporter, Bhopal Central Chronicle, September 14, 2006 The last of more than 20,000 “revision of compensation claims” arising from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy was decided on September 9th by Welfare Commissioner Justice Deepak Verma. The cases had been pending, awaiting hearing, to decide the proper amount of compensation each claimant should receive. According to…

An environmental group is taking aim at Dow Chemical. JENNIFER BORRASSO, ABC12 NEWS, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 SAGINAW COUNTY (WJRT) – (09/19/06)–The Lone Tree Council group held a press conference on Tuesday saying that Dow Chemical may be planning to dump dioxin into a dredge disposal facility site being built alongside the Saginaw River. Lone Tree…

By Pragya Bhagat I see myself surrounded by passion. In the circle where I sit, I see people that have devoted their Labor Day weekend to one cause – justice for Bhopal. And even though the gas leak that killed thousands happened twenty-two years ago, the hearts of those present here are brimming with compassion…

PR WEB, SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 A jury ruled in favor of a former plastics molder suffering from mesothelioma, assessing over $18.5 million in damages against Union Carbide Corporation, a former asbestos mining and manufacturing company. The plaintiff was represented by mesothelioma lawyers Gilbert Purcell and John Goldstein, both of Brayton Purcell. San Francisco, CA (PRWeb)…

KUENSEL ONLINE, BHUTAN, SEPTEMBER 10, 2006 23 August 2006 : After more than six months in hospital and numerous skin grafting surgeries on both limbs knee-below, Tsheten Dorji was discharged from the national referral hospital in Thimphu yesterday. The 11-year-old who suffered third degree burns from chemical waste dumped by Bhutan Carbide and Chemicals Limited…

DEAN BOHN, THE SAGINAW NEWS, SEPTEMBER 10, 2006 Governor Jennifer M. Granholm made two stops in mid-Michigan Saturday afternoon – to applaud Dow Chemical’s new Michigan Operations manufacturing site in Midland and to cheer Democrats and boo Republicans at the Saginaw County Democratic Party fall banquet in Saginaw Township. The Dow event was a rededication…

THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, SEPTEMBER 9, 2006 HAHNVILLE, La. — Dow Chemical will close a plant here, cutting 40 jobs. The closure of the peroxymeric chemical plant was announced in a news release Wednesday. It comes as Dow Epoxy announced its exit from the business of making the product, which is used in products ranging from electrical…

As reported over the last few months on Bhopal.Net, Dow has spotted an opportunity in the worldwide lack of clean drinking water both to boost its profits and its sagging image, which its recent ludicrous ad campaign has done little to improve. As we reported on June 30, 2006, Dow bought a Chinese company which…

CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL, SEPTEMBER 7, 2006 Dow Epoxy has announced plans to stop producing a chemical used to make elastomers and protective coatings at the Institute plant by August 2007. The plant is owned and operated by Bayer CropScience and is one of seven Dow Chemical Co. production facilities at the company’s West Virginia Operations…

POLLY RIPON, SHEFFIELD TODAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 MORE than 40 firefighters from across South Yorkshire tackled a huge blaze at a Sheffield warehouse last night after the building went up in flames. Eyewitnesses reported hearing three loud explosions as a huge plume of thick black smoke billowed from the former Union Carbide Factory on Claywheels…

YAHOO FINANCE, SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP – News) has reached an agreement to sell its Plaquemine Cogeneration Facility in Plaquemine, La., to The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW – News). Under terms of the agreement, Dow will pay AEP $64 million at closing. The sale…

NITYANAND JAYARAMAN, ENVIRONMENT INDIA, SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 BHOPAL, Sep 1 (IPS) – After an appellate court in the United States rejected claims by Bhopal city residents, seeking compensation from Union Carbide for environmental contamination around the site of the world’s worst industrial disaster, plans are afoot to have the case transferred to India. “Every setback…