Tag: checked
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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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Villagers voice resolve to keep out Dow Chemical
Press Trust of India, Express news service, February 21, 2008 Pune, February 20: Denouncing the state-level committee formed by the government to hear all issues against the setting up of the R&D centre by Dow Chemical near Chakan, residents of Shinde and Vasuli villlages reiterated their resolve to continue the agitation against the company. In…
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Bhopal gas leak survivors begin protest march to New Delhi
AFP, 20th February, 2008 NEW DELHI (AFP) — More than 60 survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak began a trek to New Delhi on Wednesday to press for a clean-up of the toxic waste still surrounding the plant, activists said.
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Over 100 Bhopal gas disaster survivors to foot-march to New Delhi from Feb. 20
Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net, 19th February, 2008 Bhopal: Over a hundred survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s worst industrial disaster, who were poisoned by the Union Carbide’s toxic chemicals, and their supporters will walk about 800 kilometers to New Delhi from here to remind the Indian Prime Minister of the promises he did not keep.…
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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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Chouhan Disrupted
The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister was in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, May 16, 2007. A few of us from AID, FOSA, NBA and Ruckus Society participated in a private luncheon that the MP CM and his delegation was having with the investors from the area. Plenty of swank
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Zach Coffin and Aishwarya Bachchan’s "Bhopal Movie" to start shooting in January 2008
Priyanka Dasgupta, Times News Network, India CAN YOU GAS THE TRUTH? Aishwarya Bachchan comes up for air post-shaadi. The Bachchan bahu plays an Indian-American in search of her father, a plant manager on duty the night of the Bhopal gas oil leak, in an international project. CT detects the leak. While Abiarsh are busy with…