Tag: missing media
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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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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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Mir Zafar Awards: the Tradition, the Citations
Two hundred and fifty years ago, at the Battle of Plassey, General Mir Zafar betrayed his troops and his ruler Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah and cut a deal with the British East India Company, thus ushering in the “Kampani Raj” and ensuring the subjugation of the Indian population to foreign rulers for two hundred years. In respectful…
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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…
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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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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…