Tired of waiting for the government of Madhya Pradesh to obey a five-month-old Supreme Court order to supply clean water to contaminated areas, communities bearing the brunt of Carbide’s water poisoning today forced the issue with a blockade of two of Bhopal’s main roads. The action follows recent meetings with Babulal Gaur, then Minister for [...]
For the first time in India the air that people living near industries breathe has been tested for toxic gases. The results confirm local people’s worst fears, say Sipcot Community Health Monitors, who carried out the study under the direction of Denny Larson of Global Community Monitor. “In nine years I have seen at least [...]
TIMES OF INDIA [MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 02:35:53 AM] NEW DELHI: On a cold wintry night of December 2-3, 15,000 people were killed in Bhopal when 41 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate, a poisonous gas leaked from one of the tanks of Union Carbide Corporation’s plant. An initial survey on the after-effects of the gas leak [...]
A report on the effects of exposure to dioxin from Ivon Watkins-Dow’s chemical plant is today expected to overturn 30 years of assurances that residents had nothing to fear. The residents have claimed for years that the plant’s emissions caused birth defects, cancer and other diseases. A Health Ministry team has been in the affected [...]
The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) today launched Project Chirag, an income-generation initiative for young survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster. The ICJB has decided on having “hope” and “rebuilding” as the key themes for the 20th anniversary of the gas disaster and this is the first such initiative. The project will [...]
LONDON, 8 SEPT 2004. An alert Bhopal.Net reader clicking this link in our 2003 news story 57 UK MPs sign Early Day Motion in support of Bhopal, was astonished to find himself reading instead about a dog called Blaze, who has apparently been saving the lives of British soldiers in Basra. The mundane explanation for [...]
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. Dow was due to appear in Court today to show cause why it should [...]
Survivors join Global Action against Waste Incineration, tell Dow, “get your poisonous waste out of Bhopal” Bhopal-based members of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal today joined more than 100 groups around the world participating in a Global Day of Action against the disposal of wastes by burning. The Bhopal ICJB members called on [...]
