JAYANTA ROY CHOWDHURY, Calcutta Telegraph, July 30, 2007 New Delhi, July 29: The Centre may not be able to let Dow Chemicals shrug off responsibility for cleaning up the toxic residue left behind by the Bhopal gas disaster. A note being prepared by the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers is expected to argue against letting [...]
Economic Times, G Ganapathy Subramaniam & Gireesh Chandra Prasad, TNN, 27 Jul, 2007 Editor’s note: The following story signals a potentially key event in Bhopal’s long fight for justice and economic and environmental rehabilitation. If the PMO files caught numerous Indian officials en flagrante with Dow, the following news signals preliminary plans for a shotgun [...]
OneIndia, July 27, 2007 Babulal Gaur is referring to surface wastes, and not the thousands of tonnes of underground wastes feeding poison into local aquifers(ed.). Bhopal, July 27 (UNI) The Madhya Pradesh government has provided Rs 2 crore for removing the chemical waste left out on the premises of the Union Carbide’s pesticide plant after [...]
Olga Trellis, The Asian Age, July 18, 2007 Mumbai, July 18: Dow Chemical chairman Andrew Liveris has in a letter to Indian ambassador to the United States Ronen Sen tried to enlist his support to get the Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers to drop its demand for the payment of Rs 100 crores as [...]
Olga Trellis, The Asian Age, July 17th, 2007 Mumbai, July 17: The Indian government has been quietly trying to facilitate the entry into the country of Dow Chemical, now the parent company of Union Carbide. New Delhi appears to take the view that Dow Chemical bears no responsibility for the December 1984 gas tragedy at [...]
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal, July 18, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT Bhopalis rage against Indian government collusion with Dow Thousands of residents of the neighbourhood communities today afternoon laid siege around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal that is [...]
The Hindu, July 12, 2007 Signs of surprising efficiency within the government of India? Within two weeks of the ICJB releasing the PMO Files, Montek Singh, one of the officials exposed as a conspirator, declares that the Tata plan to bail out Dow has been shelved… New delhi, PTI, July 12: Industry doyen Ratan Tata [...]
MAHESH L , NANDITTA CHIBBER, Down to Earth, July 11th, 2007 The controversial move by the Madhya Pradesh government to incinerate some waste from the the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has met with stiff opposition. Civil society groups have strongly criticised the plan to take the waste to an incinerator in Gujarat. They say [...]
The story below about the Dow bribery scandal that we published back in May now looks more than a little ironic. Even as the Indian government was promising action against Dow Chemical to members of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of India’s Parliament, its officials were deeply involved with trying to get the chemical [...]
Praful Bidwai, NEW DELHI, Jul 9 (IPS) Try as it might Dow Chemical Company is unable to shake off the criminal liability it inherited for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and also responsibility to clean up toxic contamination at the site of the pesticides plant, originally owned and operated by Union Carbide Corporation. Since 2001 [...]
