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 Clean up plan for Union Carbide waste in Bhopal raises concern [1]

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 criticised the plan to take the waste to an incinerator in Gujarat.

They say the incinerator at Ankleshwar is badly equipped and the move will merely shift the health hazards and in no way help dispose the toxic chemical waste. Moreover, the move will rid Dow Chemicals

Publication Date: 
14/07/2007
Nandita Chibber [2], Mahesh L [3]
Down to Earth [4]
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Bhopal [5], State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) [6], Waste Disposal [7], Landfill [8], Waste Incineration [9], Conflicts [10], Bhopal Gas Disaster [11], Union Carbide [12], High Court [13], NGO [14], India [15], Gujarat [16], Madhya Pradesh [17], Toxic Wastes [18]
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