For immediate release 18 JULY, 2005. BHOPAL, NEW DELHI, CHENNAI Dow Chemical’s business expansion plans in India suffered their first serious setback after a campaign by survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster resulted in a dramatic reversal of Indian Oil Corporation’s decision to purchase technology from Dow for IOC’s proposed mono ethylene glycol plant [...]

15 July, 2005 A division bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed shifting and disfiguration of property of the now-closed pesticide plant of the MNC Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) at Bhopal. Local woman Noor Jehan lies in hospital after the bungled “clean-up” attempt sent a cloud of chemical dust over her neighbourhood. The [...]

The recent “clean up Union Carbide’s Bhopal factory” petition filed out of the blue in the Madhya Pradesh High Court was a move masterminded by Dow itself, say Bhopal survivors, and the governments of India and Madhya Pradesh agree. The High Court’s latest order states: It is brought to the notice of the Court that [...]

Twenty years after Union Carbide’s (now Dow Chemicals) plant gassed 5,70,000 people, the Madhya Pradesh government plans to dismantle the plant that caused the world’s worst industrial disaster, letting the MNC off the hook By V K Shashikumar in Bhopal Mohammed Ansar turned 22 this year. A victim of the gas tragedy, he hasn’t moved [...]

From The Pioneer, July 12, 2005 Bhopal Gas survivors’ leader Abdul Jabbar on Monday vehemently opposed a move to remove toxic chemicals present in and around the abandoned Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) plant. He said that it would only aid the UCC and its present owner Dow Chemicals from absolving themselves of responsibility for the [...]

MULTINATIONALS ON THE RUN IN INDIA London: July 12, 2005: The Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of the Atlanta based Coca-Cola company, has threatened Mr. Sharad Haksar, one of India’s celebrated photographers, with a lawsuit. Mr. Haksar, a leading international photographer and winner of the 2005 Cannes Silver Lion, has placed a large [...]

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information & Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz PRESS STATEMENT More than 200 survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today demonstrated before the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers at Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi demanding punitive action [...]