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HANK DANISZEWSKI, LONDON FREE PRESS REPORTER, AUGUST 31, 2006 SARNIA — Once a giant in Sarnia’s Chemical Valley, Dow Chemical Canada is pulling out of the city by the end of 2008, putting 380 people out of work. The announcement shocked union and municipal officials and blindsided Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, who was in Sarnia…

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, AUGUST 31, 2006 NEW YORK Dow Chemical, which has shuttered 50 plants in the past three years to trim costs, announced plans Thursday to close factories in Italy and Canada and record as much as $650 million in severance expenses and writedowns in the third quarter. About 750 jobs will be eliminated,…

ZEE NEWS, AUGUST 31, 2006 Kevadiya (Gujarat), Aug 31: The work of raising the height of Naramda Dam to 121.82 meters is expected to be completed by December-end, officials said here today. The work of raising the dam height from the present 119 meters to 121.82 meters is expected to begin in the second week…

FORBES.COM, AUGUST 28, 2006 AMSTERDAM (AFX) – A production facility of Dow Chemical in the Netherlands has been hit by a large fire, Dutch news agency ANP said. Although the exact size of the fire is unknown at this stage, the Terneuzen Fire Department sent out a major alert. The fire apparently started in a…

ZEE NEWS, AUGUST 28, 2006 New Delhi, Aug 28: Undeterred by the adverse verdict by a US court on an appeal by Bhopal gas tragedy survivors, a group has taken up the fight against Union Carbide Corporation in the same court. A case filed by Ramavtar Sahu for compensation, medical monitoring and clean-up of toxic…

CRIS BARRISH, THE DELAWARE NEWS JOURNAL, AUGUST 27, 2996 The Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex plant near Cheswold, which has been in operation since the late 1950s, has been cited and fined numerous times for violations by state environmental officials since 1990, according to News Journal files and state reports. Violation records before 1990 could not…

INDIA NEWS, AUGUST 27, 2006 Bhopal – In a scene straight out of a Hindi movie, a 14-year-old boy who had disappeared six months ago made a dramatic appearance in a Madhya Pradesh court where his parents were being tried for his murder. Gabbar went missing Feb 10 from Hoshangabad district. On March 20, the…

BHOPAL CENTRAL CHRONICLE, AUGUST 26, 2006 When future historians evaluate the current Session of Parliament, they will rate it as one of the most raucous and unproductive series of sittings ever held by India’s lawmakers. Its first half was dominated by a non-issue- a hollow, unsubstantiated, cheaply sensationalist claim made by one of India’s most…

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE, AUGUST 25, 2006 Bhopal, Aug 25 (IANS) Four poachers have been arrested here and a tiger and panther skin seized from them, a senior official said. The arrests followed a tip off to wildlife department officials that some people were trying to strike a deal to sell the animal skins to…

REUTERS, AUGUST 23, 2006 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former employee of Dow Chemical Co. (DOW.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has been arrested and charged with conspiring to steal company trade secrets and sell them in China, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. Former Dow researcher Wen Shyu Liu was arrested in Seattle, Washington on Tuesday on an…

NDTV AUGUST 23, 2006 The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to inform the court through an affidavit, the exact number of people who died and were injured in the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984. After getting the reply, the SC is likely to examine whether to re-open the Bhopal Gas tragedy settlement between the…

MATTHEW RUSSELL OF INNER CITY PRESS, AT THE UN, AUGUST 22, 2006 UNITED NATIONS, August 22 — Across from UN on Manhattan’s East Side on Tuesday there was a protest of the use of Agent Orange in Southeast Asia. A manufacturer and distributor of Agent Orange, Dow Chemical, was celebrated at UN Headquarters less than…

(small)AGENZIA GIORNALISTICA ITALIA, AUGUST 21, 2006 Venice, Aug. 21 – Dow Chemical workers have gone on strike at 10 AM for 24 hours. The strike was called by all the trade unions to protest against the missing reopening of the plants which has been decided by the chemistry giant’s US managers. Franco Baldan of Filcem-Cgil…

PETER FAIRLEY, MT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, AUGUST 17, 2006 As terrorism worries grow, will Congress finally force chemical plants to consider security upgrades? Don’t bet on it. The 1947 explosion of a fertilizer tanker ship in Texas City, TX, killed nearly 600 people. Chemical safety experts worry that hundreds of U.S. chemical plants could be vulnerable…

Unfortunately, some flood relief work in Bhopal has been divided along communal lines. Seva Bharati, the social work wing of the RSS, distributes food only to Hindus and keeps away from communities such as Shaheen Colony, Sundar Nagar and PGBT College where most people are Muslims. Meanwhile a group run by Muslims has been distributing…