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 [...]
In a comprehensive victory for Bhopal survivors, the Indian Supreme Court today affirmed that unpaid compensation money amounting to £187 million (€270 million, US$343 million), belonged to the survivors and to them alone. The court dismissed applications by the government of Madhya Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Union Carbide’s Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust and [...]
More than 2000 Bhopal survivors and their supporters will demonstrate in Delhi on October 26 to protest against those who are trying to grab a share of the undistributed compensation fund that the Supreme Court has ruled belongs solely to the survivors of Union Carbide’s 1984 gas disaster. At the head of the line with [...]
Over 700 children including students from 11 schools participated today in the drawing and painting contest organized by the Sambhavna Trust Clinic. Children made drawings on the subject of the Union Carbide gas disaster or contamination of ground water due to Carbide’s toxic waste. Books and games were awarded to 17 children selected by three [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. TUESDAY 22 JULY Eighteen members of Congress have sent a letter to Dow Chairman William Stavropoulos demanding that his company assume liability for the wrongdoings of Union Carbide (its 100% subsidiary) in Bhopal. The Congresspersons, led by Representatives Frank Pallone and Dennis Kucinich are demanding that Dow provide medical rehabilitation and economic reparations [...]
Sign the petition here. NOTE: THE PETITION IS NO LONGER ACTIVE Twenty years is a long time to wait for justice, proper compensation, the freedom to live without fear from poisons in your drinking water, proper medical studies into the illnesses that have ravaged your health and your family’s for two decades. To this day, [...]
In May 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered that clean and safe drinking water must be supplied to 14 Bhopali communities which are currently forced to use water dangerously contamined by chemicals leaking from Union Carbide’s abandoned factory.
The response of the State government has been to ignore the Supreme Court order. Today in Bhopal survivors and their supporters took to the streets in protest. We can help them by writing, faxing or emailing in protest to:
Mr Iqbal Ahmed
Secretary, Department of Gas Relief
Government of Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh
India
email: digrr@mp.nic.in
phone: +91 755 441424
fax: +91 755 257 1399
Congressman Frank Pallone’s bill calls for Congress to recognise the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster and express commitment to work with the Government of India and others to ensure that Union Carbide provides environmental and medical rehabilitation of the affected area and is held responsible for its actions. The full text can be found [...]
Hysterically funny news has just reached us. Chief Minister Gaur visited a Bhopal police station the other day and was appalled by the size of the pandus. He has ordered them to go jogging and practice yoga. They are to clean up their filthy police chowkis and must watch movies on good behaviour. We would [...]
For more than 20,000 people who suffered terrible injuries on the night of poison two decades ago, recent Supreme Court decisions about clean water and distribution of compensation monies come too late. Those twenty thousand are the dead. In their case neither was justice done, nor any humanity shown. The company, whose actions by any [...]
