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Judge summons Dow US to appear in criminal trial in Bhopal
BHOPAL SURVIVORS WARNED DOW IT WOULD INHERIT CARBIDE’S LIABILITY And not just the survivors. A group of Dow shareholders felt so strongly that the merger of Dow Chemical and Union Carbide would be a disaster for their company that they took out a class-action suit against their own management to try to prevent the deal.…
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An open letter to Shri Babu Lal Gaur, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
ABOUT YOUR PLAN TO BUILD A NEW MEMORIAL TO BHOPAL’S GAS VICTIMS Dear Chief Minister Gaur, Yesterday in Bhopal you told a press conference that you have decided to build a memorial to the memory of those who died in the Union Carbide gas disaster of twenty years ago. “Even after 20 years have passed,”…
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Nuff said
Congressman Pallone’s remarks to Congress about his bill are here. Here you can read the Midland Daily News editorial and the ICJB’s polite rejoinder correcting the chain of factual errors on which the editorial is based. Bhopal.Net, finding itself unable to be as diplomatic as its colleagues in the ICJB, declines to make further comment.…
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Sprick up your ears
UNION CARBIDE RE-EMERGES FROM THE BOWELS OF DOW Letters to Dow Chemical about Bhopal are now being answered by one Tomm F. Sprick as follows: Your inquiry concerning Union Carbide and its position on the Bhopal tragedy was forwarded to me at Union Carbide since I am UCC’s spokesman on the tragedy.” Sprick’s sudden reappearance…
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Major panic at Dow on eve of Bhopal Court hearing
Jitters at Dow Chemical on the eve of a Bhopal court hearing have resulted in the magical reappearance of something which observers thought had vanished forever – Union Carbide Corporation – in the form of a hastily flung together two-page website.
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US Government Shields Anderson
Though we at bhopal.net can’t claim to have encountered it personally, there apparently exists a widely held belief that all stand equal before the law. On March 2nd, US Attorney General John Ashcroft declared the US government to be a guarantor of this equality. “It is the honor, the duty, and responsibility of the United…
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The $195 million discrepancy – where’s the money gone?
In a highly important development, the Indian Supreme Court has asked the Reserve Bank of India to account for the colossal sum of Rs.8.85 billion ‘missing’ from the corpus of gas compensation money deposited by Union Carbide and its subsidiary Union Carbide India in 1989. The explanation, which should prove utterly fascinating, cannot come soon…
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COO – EEEEE! New Dow Chief Exec goes gaga
A history of world-class operations? Best global standards? You might imagine that we make this sort of thing up. We don’t – Dow’s potty new Chief Operating Officer Andrew Liveris does. His elevation to the top of the toxic pile has presented us with a ‘world-class’ fantasist.
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Dow wants to test poisons on humans
In 1998 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned testing poisonous chemicals on humans. Now under pressure from the chemical industry, led by Dow Chemical, the Bush administration is moving to endorse such testing and the EPA has begun lifting the ban, despite despite strong opposition from the medical community. According to Dr Joseph Mercola,…
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Bhopal.Net returns
News of our demise has been greatly exaggerated. (Well we should know, we put the news out in the first place.) Welcome to the new Bhopal.Net, bringing you as ever the latest news, gossip, articles and campaign actions from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. Still ironing out bugs, so please be patient. Meanwhile,…
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Mythological beings descend on Kings Lynn
KINGS LYNN 13 MAY 2003. Two mysterious beings appeared this morning at the Dow Chemicals factory in the tiny, remote English town of Kings Lynn, Norfolk. “We are from the UK branch of the ICJB and we come bringing a gift” they told plant managers who stared at them in wonder and said, “We have…
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UCC docs show “Unproven Technology” was used in Bhopal
Union Carbide documents showing that “unproven technology” was used in Bhopal. Secret Union Carbide documents obtained by “discovery” during a class action suit brought by survivors against the company in New York, reveal for the first time that the technology used at the fatal Bhopal factory – including the crucial units manufacturing carbon monoxide and…
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The Bhopal Gas Tragedy – just an accident?
Original post: https://www.bhopal.net/old_bhopal_net/gasfacts.html 1. A History of Massacre…. * Union Carbide started out as a carbon company in 1886 and diversified to gases and chemicals during World War I. * From the Manhattan project of World War II, until it relinquished its contract in 1984, Union Carbide was a contractor to the US federal government’s…
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Of death in Bhopal and dinner in Babylon
BRIDGEHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 8, 2002: Ex-Carbide CEO Warren Anderson is clearly startled by all the media attention focussed on him since a court in Bhopal reaffirmed on 28 August that he is wanted for the homicide of 20,000 Bhopalis, and called for his immediate extradition. Warren has been ignoring the court’s summonses and Interpol’s…
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Helicopter buzzes Diane Wilson’s house in attempt to intimidate her into silence
We have to take this very seriously because after a 1992 action against Formosa Plastics, shots were fired from a helicopter at her house, narrowly missing a relative and killing her dog. PLEASE READ THE FULL STORY BELOW AND CALL KATHY HUNT, DOW PR LEADER AT SEADRIFT