Bhopal

Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopals Order Of January 6, 2005, requiring Dow Chemical Company, USA to state why it should.....

Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal

Publication Date:

06/01/2005

Tags:

Bhopal, Chemical Industry, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, United States Of America (US), India

Environment

Unsettling truths, untold tales: the Bhopal gas disaster victims twenty years of courtroom struggles for justice

The Bhopal gas leak disaster symbolises the failure of the legal system in general and the failure of the system to respond to the disaster in particular. The twenty years of engagement with the law and the justice system holds many lessons for the future. It is time for introspection and assessment.

Publication Date:

01/01/2005

Author(s): S. Muralidhar

Source: International Environmental Law Research Centre

Tags:

Bhopal, Environment, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Bhopal Act 1985, Union Carbide, Legislation, Supreme Court, Geneva, International Environmental Law Research Centre, S. Muralidhar, Compensation

India

Amnesty campaign

Justice for Bhopal

Publication Date:

30/12/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Bhopal, Bhopal Gas Disaster, India

Biodiversity

Payback time, Union Carbide: US

The us Congress has expressed its commitment to work with the Indian government to ensure that the Union Carbide provides complete medical, social and economic rehabilitation to the victims of

Publication Date:

14/11/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041115

pp:

0

Tags:

Bhopal, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Legislation, United States Of America (US)

Environment

The slow express

Bhopal gets promised a long awaited Rsl,503 crore

For some, the figure of Rsl,503 crore may appear a bounty. But lakhs of people in Bhopal have been waiting anxiously for several years to get this money, and it's rightfully theirs for the taking. A Supreme Court diktat that would enable them to get the money had been eluding them.

Publication Date:

02/08/2004

Author(s): Anil Sharma

Source: Business India (Mumbai)

Tags:

Bhopal, Compensation, Gas Leakages, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, Madhya Pradesh

Environment

Clouds of injustice: Bhopal disaster 20 years on

More than 7,000 people died within a matter of days when toxic gases leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in December 1984. Since then, exposure to the toxins has resulted in the deaths of a further 15,000 people as well as chronic and debilitating illnesses for thousands of others. The plant site has not been cleaned up so toxic wastes continue to pollute

Publication Date:

01/01/2004

Source: Amnesty International

Tags:

Bhopal, Health Effects, Rehabilitation, Industrial Disasters, Gas Leakages, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Bhopal Act 1985, India

Environment

Clouds of injustice: Bhopal disaster 20 years on

More than 7,000 people died within a matter of days when toxic gases leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in December 1984. Since then, exposure to the toxins has resulted in the deaths of a further 15,000 people as well as chronic and debilitating illnesses for thousands of others. The plant site has not been cleaned up so toxic wastes continue to pollute

Publication Date:

01/01/2004

Source: Amnesty International

Tags:

Bhopal, Health Effects, Rehabilitation, Industrial Disasters, Gas Leakages, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Bhopal Act 1985, India

India

The company s crass

This is arguably the starkest reminder of corporate irresponsibility. In mid-October this year, us congressman Frank Pallone and eight colleagues filed an amicus brief on behalf of the more than

Publication Date:

29/11/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20031130

pp:

0

Tags:

Bhopal, Chemical Industry, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Chemical Leakages, United States Of America (US), India

India

Poison present

Greenpeace and Bhopal disaster survivors transported toxic waste from the Bhopal disaster site to Dow Chemical Co's largest European operation, Dow Benelux, in the Dutch town of Terneuzen. About 20 activists were arrested after they unloaded 250 kg of the

Publication Date:

14/02/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Bhopal, Pesticide Industry, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, NGO, Greenpeace, Netherlands, India, Toxic Wastes

Environment