Dow wins 2005 Public Eye Award for worst corporation The Public Eye on Davos – the coalition of NGOs set up as a counterweight to the WEF, has voted Dow Chemical Worst Corporation in the human rights category of its excrescence awards. Dow easily beat a field of deeply unpleasant competitors that included Bayer, Bechtel, [...]
Dr Ramana Dhara, a medic who has finessed a career out of the Bhopal disaster is about to enter upon his finest hour. A tank containing 40 tonnes of methyl-isocyanate, the gas primarily implicated in the massive Union Carbide leak, is to be caused to erupt in a restaging of that night. It will however [...]
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 [...]
An earlier piece (two below) reminds me that when the question of cleaning up the derelict Union Carbide factory was put to Dow director Jacqui Barton, her reply was that the ICJB should conduct an international fundraising campaign (presumably referring to the success of the Bhopal Medical Appeal in the UK) and thus get the [...]
MANDIDEEP, BHOPAL (AFP) Jan 20, 2005 Thousands of students and farmers on Thursday surrounded Pepsi and Coca-Cola factories in a “Quit India” campaign, accusing the US giants of selling soft drinks laced with pesticides. They lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in a five-kilometre (three-mile) chain around a Pepsi bottling plant at this central Indian township, an AFP [...]
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. [...]
