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A visit to the Sambhavna Trust Clinic in Bhopal, April 3rd to 7th 2007
BY DOCTOR BISWANATH GOUDA I never understood it when people used to say that it’s easier to make rational decisions when you are not part of the problem you are trying to understand. Not until April 2004. That summer, after graduating with a Masters in Public Health from Tulane I stumbled upon the AID website…
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Dow worker involved in chlorine leak dies, but cause is undetermined. Says Dow, “Our drive-to-zero program is a vision of zero incidents, zero accidents, zero emissions.” And zero truth.
John Lowman, The Facts, May 8, 2007 FREEPORT — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Dow Chemical Co. $10,000 for four alleged safety violations. In a document with an official release date of April 30 but available Monday, Dow is fined $5,000 for two alleged offenses and not fined for two others. The…
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Toxic waste not Ankleshwar’s cup of tea, says German study, but director confident of disposal
Indian Express, May 3, 2007 Vadodara, May 2: It is not just the experts who contended that the Bhopal Gas Tragedy waste cannot be disposed off at the Ankleshwar incinerator. An independent study conducted barely two months ago by German company GTZ based in Frankfurt, raised doubts about the capacity of the Ankleshwar incinerators to…
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Toxic waste not Ankleshwar’s cup of tea, says German study, but director confident of disposal
Indian Express, May 3, 2007 Vadodara, May 2: It is not just the experts who contended that the Bhopal Gas Tragedy waste cannot be disposed off at the Ankleshwar incinerator. An independent study conducted barely two months ago by German company GTZ based in Frankfurt, raised doubts about the capacity of the Ankleshwar incinerators to…
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Indian government assures action against Dow Chemicals
The Statesman, New Delhi, May 4, 2007 NEW DELHI, May 4: The government today assured that it would take action against Dow Chemicals, the multinational company which took over the controversial Union Carbide in 2001, if the company is found guilty with respect to reports that it bribed Indian officials to get its products registered.
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Indian government assures action against Dow Chemicals
The Statesman, New Delhi, May 4, 2007 NEW DELHI, May 4: The government today assured that it would take action against Dow Chemicals, the multinational company which took over the controversial Union Carbide in 2001, if the company is found guilty with respect to reports that it bribed Indian officials to get its products registered.
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Action will be taken against Dow after probe
Monsters & Critics.com, May 4, 2007 New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The government Friday promised to take action against Dow Chemicals, which has taken over Union Carbide and produces insecticides in India, after investigating reports that it secured registration and approval of its products by bribing Indian officials.
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"CBI probing Dow’s disclosure on bribes"
The Hindu, New Delhi, May 4, 2007 The Government has ordered a CBI probe into US firm Dow Chemicals’ disclosure about paying bribes to officials in India for securing approval for their pesticides. Replying to queries, Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, said after Dow Chemicals in February made the disclosure of paying two lakh dollars in…
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CBI probing Dow`s disclosure on paying bribes to officials
Press Trust Of India, New Delhi. May 5, 2007 Government has ordered a CBI probe into the US firm Dow Chemicals disclosure about paying bribes to officials in India for securing approval for their pesticides.
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Pawar promises action against Dow Chemicals
Economic Times, May 4, 2007 NEW DELHI: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday promised action against Dow Chemicals, which has taken over Union Carbide and produces insecticides in India, after probing reports that it had secured registration and approval of their products after bribing Indian officials.
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Environmentalists release public report protesting against proposed incineration of toxic Union Carbide waste in Gujarat – government to reconsider
Indian Express, April 29, 2007 Read the report by the Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti c/o 37 Patrakar Colony, Tandalja, Vadodara 390 020, Phone: 0265-2320399 Email: rt_manav@sancharnet.in Vadodara, April 29: Following protests by environment activists and NGOs about the decision to bring Union Carbide’s hazardous waste to Ankleshwar in Bharuch, the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) said…
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Dow Website Has the Best Facts: A well-deserved rise in interest for an important industry website
Editor’s Note: Some websites mentioned in this post no longer exist – Today, Dow Chemical is proud to announce a sudden surge in the popularity of Bhopal.com, one of the most important elements in Dow’s arsenal of responses to the disaster at Bhopal 18 years ago. Bhopal.com of course recounts the Bhopal catastrophe with the…
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CEO of Dow Chemical Liveris sparks questions at EPIIC panel: put on the spot over Bhopal
Christy McCuaig, Tufts Daily, March 5, 2007 Andrew Liveris, the CEO of Dow Chemical, speaks at an EPIIC panel. PHOTO: Jo Duara On Saturday night during a panel in the ASEAN Auditorium about corporate responsibility, a question and answer session highlighted tensions regarding a chemical company connected to a massive industrial disaster that occurred over…
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Cops remove protesting Bhopal gas leak survivors
INDIA ENEWS.COM, MARCH 18, 2007 Five fasting survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy have been forcibly removed to hospital by police here for refusing to take medical aid till Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accepted their various long-pending demands. They were picked up while on the 14th day of their fast Saturday and have…
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Indefinite Fast (Day Eleven)/ Right to Life dharna (Day Twenty-four): Gas survivors express solidarity with the victims of police brutality in Nandigram and press for an end to government complicity in the suffering of innocent people everywhere
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, March 15, 2007 One word is springing out of each newspaper, television screen, and radio speaker in India- Nandigram. Industrialization of a town that does not want factories to destroy their farms, it is not something we have not heard before. Then why has it become such a hot topic? Precisely because…