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  • Bayer finally gives up toxic MIC production in Institute, WV

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    Saturday, Mar 19, 2011 Associated Press INSTITUTE, W.VA.: For the first time in 26 years, Barbara Oden can let go of the image that has haunted her — poisonous gas leaking from a Union Carbide tank and killing thousands of people in Bhopal, India, in the world’s deadliest industrial disaster.

  • Unproven Technology

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    Union Carbide documents showing that “unproven technology” was used in Bhopal. Secret Union Carbide documents obtained by “discovery” during a class action suit brought by survivors against the company in New York, reveal for the first time that the technology used at the fatal Bhopal factory – including the crucial units manufacturing carbon monoxide and…

  • US Congressmen tell Dow to clean up Bhopal

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    Ranjit Devraj, IPS, June 18, 2009 A campaign in the United States led by two girl victims from Bhopal, highlighting lingering toxicity left behind by the 1984 gas disaster in their city, has paid off with a group of 27 members of the U.S. Congress asking Dow Chemicals to clean up the site. Sarita and…

  • Nuclear mess has Tri-Cities cleaning up financially

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    RICHLAND, Wash. – Out on the Hanford nuclear reservation, a fantastically poisoned plateau where the federal government brewed up most of the plutonium for its nuclear arsenal, the cleanup is going rather badly. Now in its 17th year, the nation’s largest and most complex environmental remediation project is costing many billions of dollars more than…

  • Addition of vitrification plant stacks changes Hanford’s skyline

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    Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald, October 28th, 2006 Hanford vitrification plant workers secure 130-foot stack The skyline at Hanford’s vitrification plant changed Friday. Bechtel National spent about four hours slowing lifting 125 tons of emission stacks 70 feet into the air to place them on top of the plant’s Low Activity Waste Facility. “This is the…

  • Energy Department drops appeal of fine for Hanford waste handling

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    From Mike McGavick, Monday, October 9, 2006 RICHLAND, Wash. — The federal government has dropped its appeal of a $270,000 fine over the handling of radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation, two years after the fine was first imposed. The issue arose in 2004 when the Department of Energy shipped 83 drums of laboratory…

  • US Government Shields Anderson

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    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…

  • Recent Bhopal talks at US colleges

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    Berkeley, April 14, 2004: Rashida Bee and Champa Devi, two survivors of the Bhopal disaster, and Sathyu Sarangi, a longtime activist for justice in Bhopal and managing Director of the Sambhavna Clinic, spoke at the University of California, Berkeley in an event organized by the Association of South Asian Political Activists and the South Asian…

  • Bhopal survivors arrive in the US

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    April 22nd – Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, gas affected survivors and leaders of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karamchari Sangh (Bhopal Gas Affected Women’s Stationery Workers’ Union / BGPMSKS), and Satinath Sarangi of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action arrived in Texas, US today for a 40 day tour. During their…