India

 The poison piles up

Ten winters since methyl isocyanate exhaled history"s deadliest industrial disaster on Bhopal, action on toxicity remains agonisingly inadequate. India needs the technical knowledge of the Western world. Union Carbide recently made available its vast scie

Publication Date: 
30/12/1994
Rahul Shrivastava
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Health Effects, Rehabilitation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, India
India

 Survivor's dillemma

Razia Sultana I ran away with my husband and 6 children on the night of the leak. But there was no escape from the toxic fumes. My husband was diagnosed stomach cancer and a heart condition. Till

Publication Date: 
30/12/1994
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India

 The chemistry of living death

THE world's biggest industrial disaster has been rendered today its most trivial. Criminal corporate culpability and governmental concern for its poorest of the poor are the 2 elements missing in Bhopal a full decade aft methyl isocyanate leaked fro

Publication Date: 
30/12/1994
Anumita Roychowdhury
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Rehabilitation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Hazardous Industry, India
India

 Selling a liability

The Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, which devastated the city, has changed hands. The plant that made methylisocyanate (mic) infamous throughout the world has been taken over from the us-based

Publication Date: 
14/10/1994
Down to Earth
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Union Carbide, India
India

 Petition seeks to protect Bhopal evidence

Three voluntary organisations working among the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have moved separate applications before the court of the chief judicial magistrate in Bhopal, Alok Jha, seeking an

Publication Date: 
14/08/1994
Down to Earth
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Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, India, Maharashtra
Forests

 Court raps CBI

The Bhopal High Court has pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for "lack of seriousness" in handling criminal proceedings against Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), whose negligence

Publication Date: 
14/11/1993
Down to Earth
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Gas Leakages, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide
Environment

Union Carbide: Disaster at Bhopal

In the early hours of Moday, Dec 3,1984, a toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate (MIC)gas enveloped the hundreds of shanties and huts surrounding a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Later, as the deadly cloud slowly drifted in the cool night air through streets in surrounding sections, sleeping residents awoke, coughing, choking and rubbing painfully stinging eyes.

Publication Date: 
01/01/1993
Jackson B. Browning
Tags:
Bhopal, Gas Leakages, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Methyl Isocyanate (MIC), Union Carbide, United States Of America (US), India
Environment

The International Medical Commission on Bhopal: Findings & recommendations

In addition to the large-scale loss of life and continuing health problems experienced by the victims of the Bhopal disaster, a major casualty has been the lack of information. Compared to other major chemical disasters in the world, Bhopal has the dubious distinction of not only being the worst, but also one of the least investigated.

Publication Date: 
01/01/1993
V. Ramana Dhara
International Medical Commission on Bhopal
Tags:
Environment, Hazardous Waste, Occupational Safety, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Toxicity Studies, Union Carbide, Government Of India (GOI), Health Effects
India

 Red tape and corruption delay compensation

DECEMBER 2 3 marks the eighth anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak the world's worst industrial disaster. More than 4,000 lives were lost and 6.4 lakh people injured when methyl isocyanate MIC gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Ltd plant. Si

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
Nitya Jacob
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rehabilitation, Compensation, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, India
India

 Bhopal's nightmare of green and apathy

IF LIVING proof is needed of how institutions created by human beings for their welfare really work, one has only to go to Bhopal, where thousands succumbed in a deadly MIC gas leak on the night of

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
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