Environment

Affidavit on behalf of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karmachari Sangh & .....

Affidavit on behalf of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karmachari Sangh & Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha. This affidavit is being filed by the Interveners in response to submissions of the Union of India - in the present matter as well as Special Leave Petition (Civil) No.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
Supreme Court of India
Tags:
Bhopal, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, India, Toxic Wastes
Hazardous Waste

Dow shalt pay

Civil society groups resist Dow Chemical

Publication Date: 
24/11/2007
V. Venkatesan, Vidya Venkat
Frontline
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Tags:
Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, High Court, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Toxic Wastes
India

 Dow to clean up Bhopal site

dow Chemicals has agreed to pay up for cleaning up the site of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal but it wants all legal liabilities of the 1984 disaster removed against them. According to reports, Dow

Publication Date: 
14/10/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Chemical Industry, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Chemical Leakages, Union Carbide, NGO, India
Environment

Letter of D. Raja, National Secretary, Communist Party of India to PM Manmohan Singh on Bhopal Gas Disaster

On August 9th, 2007, Mr. D.Raja, National Secretary, Communist Party of India, wrote a strong letter on the matter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accusing the PM's office of treating Dow and not Bhopal survivors as the victims of an injustice. The Prime Minister replied on August 17th.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2007
Prime Ministers Office
Tags:
Environment, Health Effects, Compensation, Hazardous Waste, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Court, High Court, Government Of India (GOI), United States Of America (US), Madhya Pradesh, Prime Ministers Office, New Delhi, Water Pollution
India

 Clean up plan for Union Carbide waste in Bhopal raises concern

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

Publication Date: 
14/07/2007
Nandita Chibber, Mahesh L
Down to Earth
Tags:
Bhopal, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal, Landfill, Waste Incineration, Conflicts, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, High Court, NGO, India, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Toxic Wastes
Environment

Supreme court judgment on re-examine the inadequacy of Bhopal Gas settlement

The present two interlocutory applications are filed by the applicants, (i) Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (

Publication Date: 
05/04/2007
Supreme Court of India
Tags:
Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, United States Of America (US), India
Economy

The race begins... again

No small sachets, no video-on-wheels, no wall paintings. Rural 2.0 is not just about selling soaps or colas in flexible sizes at lower prices. It is about creating a market from scratch by first developing it, solving its basic problems, figuring out what it needs and then designing a product or service built around that one need that a company could, probably, service.

Publication Date: 
26/03/2007
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar, Janhavi Abhyankar
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
Rural Development, Village Level Planning, Union Carbide, NGO, India, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL)
Hazardous Waste

Toxic legacy

Ratan Tata's offer to help find funds to remove the toxic waste in UCC's Bhopal plant is inconsistent with the `polluter pays' principle.

Publication Date: 
27/01/2007
V.Venkatesan
Frontline
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Industrial Waste, Waste Management, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Tata Motors, Union Carbide, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (D), Toxic Wastes
Environment

International Campaign for justice in Bhopal

Warren Anderson, Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation at the time of the 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal is summoned along with UCC to appear before a court in Bhopal to face criminal charges of culpable homicide. Since 1992 he and the corporation have been refusing to appear and have been declared "absconders from justice".

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Amit Garg, Abhiroop Chatterjee, Prashant Sharma & et al
Networking and Advocacy
Tags:
Environment, Health Effects, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Poverty, Union Carbide, Government Of India (GOI), NGO, Madhya Pradesh, Groundwater Pollution
Water Pollution

 IN COURT

Setback for Bhopal victims: In a major setback to the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the US court of appeals for the Second Circuit in New York has rejected their plea against Union

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Health Effects, Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, United States Of America (US), New York

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