A new Union Carbide scandal broke in India today as furious Bhopal survivors protested against leaked plans of a shadowy deal between Carbide’s 100% owner Dow Chemical and the Indian Oil Corporation to supply ethylene glycol technology for IOC’s Panipat complex. The process, called METEOR, is thought to belong to Union Carbide, a corporation which [...]
Press Statementfrom International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal Hundreds of Bhopal survivors today demonstrated before the State Headquarters of Indian Oil Corporation denouncing its proposed purchasing of Union Carbide’s technology from its new owner Dow Chemical. Supporters of the Bhopal protestors in different parts of the country have resolved to target Indian Oil Corporation with [...]
Bhopal.Net has more than 2,000 pages of information and documentation hidden away in its depths. The site has grown haphazardly over the years, with layers of new material gradually burying the older. Gradually routes to the deeper levels became lost. Finding them again and bringing that old material to light is like conducting an archaeological [...]
JHADOOS AND BANNERS RETURN TO HAUNT DOW A Dow Chemical banquet at Lake Jackson, Texas, was attended last night by broom and banner wielding volunteers of the ICJB, who handed out copies of the Bhopal Chief Magistrate’s order summoning Dow Chemical US to appear in the criminal trial in Bhopal. Lake Jackson police turned out [...]
INDIA’S POLITICIANS MOVE TO DENY BHOPAL SURVIVORS MEDICAL CARE The following press statement was issued today by Bhopal survivors’ organisations and their supporters. Bhopal, February 12, 2005 Over two hundred survivors of the December ’84 Union Carbide gas disaster today held a demonstration at the office of the Chief Medical Officer [Gas Relief] at 11.30 [...]
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, BUY THEIR BOOK HERE Dow Chemical is leading a group ot twenty chemical giants in an all-out attack on two historians who have uncovered the sordid history of vinyl chloride production and its effects on health in the United States and Europe. Dow is the world’s largest producer of vinyl chloride, a [...]
