18-July-2011 http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws180711India.asp# The Madhya Pradesh high court has ordered that the drdo dispose off toxic waste from union carbide’s bhopal plant. Why the secrecy? INDIA MAY have sent rockets into space. But as a nation, we are not yet potty trained. With more than six decades of industrialisation behind us, one would think that India [...]
Enviroment Minister Jairam Ramesh came to Bhopal on July 5 to meet representatives of the Bhopal survivors organisations. During his last visit to Bhopal on September 14, 2009, he had picked up a piece of hazardous waste stored in the abandoned Union Carbide factory and somewhat like Hrithik Roshan in a Hide & Seek biscuits [...]
Over 100 survivors of the Union Carbide disaster and people exposed to ground water contaminated by Union Carbide’s hazardous waste, today demonstrated at the office of the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board demanding explanation of its role in the toxic exposure and injury of six workers at the MP Waste Management Facility at Pithampur near [...]
To the Chairman, MP Pollution Control Board, Paryavaran Parisar, E-5, Arera Colony, Bhopal 462 016 Sub: Personal and Organizational Responsibility for Toxic Injury to six workers at the MP Waste Management Project, Pithampur, Dhar on June 25, 2010. Sir, We survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal and people exposed to ground [...]
BHOPAL.NET OPINION. On the face of it, the Group of Ministers’ recommendations seem attractive. 700 crores in “enhanced compensation”, site to be cleaned, Anderson pursued – it sounds good, until you examine the details. Then it becomes clear that these proposals, while seeking to salve the public’s sorely wounded pride, actually do little or nothing [...]
In their statement released today, seven Bhopal survivors’ organisations have condemened the Government’s hastily flung together plan to calm public outrage by appearing to offer additional compensation to the Bhopal survivors. In fact less than ten percent of people known to be exposed to Union Carbide’s toxic gases will receive any of this extra largesse. [...]
NDTV (New Delhi Television) one of India’s prime news channels, yesterday received a letter from Dow spokesman Scott Wheeler claiming that the case to hold Dow responsible for cleaning up Bhopal had been concocted by “activists”. “There are some,” Wheeler wrote, “who continue to try to affix responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy to Dow, but [...]
A welcome visit to this website from Rory Owen Delaney brings news of his latest documentary, Toxic Soup, a Michael Moore style investigation into lives lived under the smokestack shade of giant chemical plants. The ultimate reference point for everyone living near a chemical factory is Bhopal and the terror of what happened there. After [...]
ICJB press release of 4 May, 2010 here Bhopal gas survivors gathered outside the Prime Minister of India’s office in New Delhi to file Right-to-Information (RTI) requests regarding the civil nuclear liability bill and its relationship with the lessons of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. “We want to know whether the lingering concerns of [...]
For immediate release: June 17, 2009 CONTACT: Shana Ortman, ICJB Coordinator, (415)-746-0306, shana@panna.org Tony Millard, ICJB Spokesperson, (708)-606-8142, aj.millard@gmail.com Nearly 30 House members support Bhopal survivors’ demands of U.S. chemical maker Download the entire signed letter here (large pdf file). Survivors of the ongoing chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, secured a major victory Tuesday, as [...]
