Tag: European Union

Survey reveals varied approach to risk communication across the EU

Sep 3, 2006

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CORDIS NEWS, AUGUST 25. 2006 A survey of EU Member States and six other countries has shown that the practice of risk communication varies widely from one country to another. The authors of the resulting report call for an annual forum to exchange good practice. Among risk experts, risk communication is regarded as being at…

Italian Speaker remembers Seveso

Jul 11, 2006

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in News on Related Issues

SEVESO TRAGEDY ANNIVERSARY: BERTINOTTI’S MESSAGE (AGI) – Rome, Jul 10 – Speaker of the House Fausto Bertinotti sent the following message to national secretary Rino Pavanello at the convention organised by the “Environment and Work” association: “Thirty years after the fateful date of July 10, 1976, the tragedy of Seveso still arouses feelings of dismay,…

European Parliament calls for UN special rapporteurs on Bhopal

Dec 17, 2004

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in News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for UN special rapporteurs to visit Bhopal in order to examine and assess the effects of Union Carbide’s activities, including the 1984 disaster and subsequent poisoning of water by toxic chemicals abandoned by the company in its now-derelict factory. The resolution calls on the Governments of India…

Now Euro MPs tell Dow, ‘He who pollutes must pay’

Sep 27, 2003

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in ICJB Press Releases, Statements, Letters

Dow must have imagined nobody would notice. Or mused that if your double standards are brazen enough, no one will point them out. From Kathy Hunt’s doe-eyed “but they don’t have Superfund over there, do they?” to Michael Parker’s dead-behind-the-eyes suggestion that the beggarly compensation money intended for gas survivors – yes, you read that…