Hazardous Waste

Report had slammed UCC: Gas storage recipe for disaster

The Centre seems to have forgotten the findings of a high-level technical committee it had formed immediately after the Bhopal gas tragedy, which had slammed the Union Carbide Corporation saying it was

Publication Date: 
21/06/2010
Tannu Sharma
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR), Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Indian Express (New Delhi), Toxic Wastes, Tannu Sharma
Hazardous Waste

GoM discusses clean-up options

Deliberating on remediation measures, the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday considered a number of clean-up options, including building a memorial and burying part of the toxic waste at the disaster site in Bhopal where the Union Carbide factory is located.

Publication Date: 
21/06/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Indian Express (New Delhi), Toxic Wastes
Hazardous Waste

Bhopal GoM to recommend cleanup, more relief, Anderson extradition

Ministerial Panel May Put Onus Of Cleaning Up Plant Site On MP Govt With Financial Help From Centre

Publication Date: 
21/06/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Economic Times (New Delhi), Toxic Wastes
Environment

Bhopal Gas Leak Case: Lost before the trial

The chronicle of Bhopal in the courts is of a case doomed to failure. In step after step from that fateful night of 2 December 1984 onwards, the government, legal luminaries and, even on occasion, the Supreme Court of India failed the victims of Bhopal, and one could even say failed the test of justice.

Publication Date: 
19/06/2010
Sriram Panchu
Economic and Political Weekly
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Compensation, Environment, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Court, Supreme Court, Government Of India (GOI), United States Of America (US), Madhya Pradesh, Economic and Political Weekly, Sriram Panchu, Industrial Disasters
Environment

Rs 982cr plan for Bhopal victims

Hit by the raging Bhopal gas tragedy controversy, the government on Friday began exploring options, including a special compensation package worth Rs 982 crores, for the victims. The compensation package worked out by the Planning Commission is part of comprehensive demands placed before the Centre by successive state governments.

Publication Date: 
19/06/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Madhya Pradesh, Asian Age (New Delhi), Planning Commission
Land

Naveen assures good package for villagers affected by Posco project

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik today assured that a good package will be worked out for the affected people of the Posco project, proposed to be set up near Paradip in Orissa.

Publication Date: 
19/06/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land, Land Acquisition, Mineral-Based Industry, POSCO, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Orissa (Odisha), Jagatsinghpur (D), Business Standard (New Delhi)
Hazardous Waste

Govt set to clear Rs 983 crore for Bhopal victims

New Delhi: The Centre has decided to explore the feasibility of securing the extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson, besides hiking the compensation for the Bhopal gas victims who look poised to get an additional package of Rs 982.75 crore.

Publication Date: 
19/06/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Times Of India (New Delhi)
Environment

Bhopal: GoM report on Monday

Smita Gupta and J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI:The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which met on Friday, will work through the weekend and submit its report to the Cabinet on Monday, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 10-day deadline. The mood at the meeting, sources said, was

Publication Date: 
19/06/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Waste Disposal, Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (T), Hindu (New Delhi), Toxic Wastes
Hazardous Waste

GoM backs hike in compensation

Members of the reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas leak disaster today favoured enhanced compensation as one of the key ingredients of a healing touch package but agreed to take it up along with all other issues in back-to-back meetings over the weekend before finalising its report on Monday.

Publication Date: 
19/06/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Indian Express (New Delhi)
Dams/ Irrigation

Rehabilitation of Mangla dam affectees ensured

MIRPUR (June 19 2010): The entire team of Mangla Dam Resettlement Organisation (MDRO) would make all out efforts to ensure timely rehabilitation of under-construction Mangla dam raising project affectees, said Commissioner Mangla Dam Affairs Chaudhry Munir Hussain on Friday.

He was speaking, while chairing a meeting at the Divisional Commissioner office, that a major portion of the allocated fu

Publication Date: 
19/06/2010
Business Recorder (Pakistan)
Tags:
Pakistan, Dams, Rehabilitation, Compensation

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