Tag: missing media
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Cops try to keep Diane $2000 bail bond, flash gun
8th Dec. 1.10 CDT Downtown Houston Dear All, After making bail last night and organising a pick up for her at 3-4am in the morning, David Graeve who signed on the bond got a call from the Sheriff’s office to take back $2,000 because the Calhoun County cops were going to come and take her…
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"Hang them!" Anger erupts as relatives come face to face with Union Carbide’s Indian executives outside court
INDIAN STOOGES APPEAR IN COURT, AMERICAN BOSSES REFUSE TO OBEY SUMMONS Today they returned to Bhopal, the six Indian businessmen who were in charge of Union Carbide’s ill-fated and badly run factory. They came to a court where they are charged with criminal negligence.
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A History of the Medical Disaster, Viewed Through Newspaper Clippings
News Clippings – 1984-1990: The Unfolding Medical Disaster New Clippings – 1991-1996: The Medical Crisis Continues News Clippings – 1997-2004: The Medical Crisis Continues List of Medical Headlines 1984-2004 Introduction This chronicle of the ongoing medical disaster in Bhopal is taken from newspaper clippings from local, national and some international newspapers, kept at the Sambhavna Trust…
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Carbide legacy fouls Dow’s buiness deal with Indian Oil Corporation
For immediate release 18 JULY, 2005. BHOPAL, NEW DELHI, CHENNAI Dow Chemical’s business expansion plans in India suffered their first serious setback after a campaign by survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster resulted in a dramatic reversal of Indian Oil Corporation’s decision to purchase technology from Dow for IOC’s proposed mono ethylene glycol plant…
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Amnesty International expresses concern over police brutality in Bhopal
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: ASA 20/022/2005 (Public) News Service No: 131 19 May 2005 India: Protestors who want clean drinking water face excessive and unnecessary police force Amnesty International is concerned about reports of excessive and unnecessary use of force against protesters by police in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on 17 May 2005. Amnesty…
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15% of Bhopal police are mentally ill: study finds
Indo-Asian News Service Bhopal, May 12, 2005 A survey among policemen in the Madhya Pradesh capital reveals a sad story of overwork, poor pay and unfulfilled aspirations that has driven 15 per cent of them to mental illness. Mentally ill? Reserve Inspector Chauhan beats up a demonstrator during the survivors’ attempt to begin a clean-up…
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Callous Dowboys named Top 10 Worst Corporation
ALTERNET NAMES DOW AMONG THE 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 2004 Dow Chemical is among “the year’s most egregious price gougers, polluters, union-busters, dictator-coddlers, fraudsters, poisoners, deceivers and general miscreants,” say the editors of Alternet, citing a Dow statement on Bhopal that sounds as if it was written by the Yes Men. While Dow has no…
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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.