Sunita Narain from Centre of Envrironment and Science on Dow 1 12 09.
The Centre of Environment and Science in India carried out a comprehensive testing of the soil and water in and around the Union Carbide facility ...
Teri Balser, soil science
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Dow Chemicals and Lord Coe are wrapping London 2012 in shame
Is a small charity based in Brighton and through the kind support of their donors – who are, as the sign states, mostly British – they are able to help Indian doctors and therapists save lives on a daily basis.
How perversely ironic it is then, that Britain would now undermine this excellent charitable work by engaging in a ludicrously ill-advised sponsorship agreement with one of the world’s most unethical and controversial companies. Via the misguided Olympic organizing committee and the ignorance of Lord Sebastian Coe, we are on track to insult a billion Indians by embracing Dow Chemicals as an official London 2012 sponsor.
It is now estimated that between 9,000 and 15,000 Bhopalis were killed within three days of the initial gas-leak in 1984. The first incident, caused by cost-cutting measures and a dramatic decline in safety standards implemented by Carbide’s American management, is infamous. Less well known is the fact that some 120,000 or more are still living with agonizing chronic health problems caused by 27 years of ground-water and soil pollution; a result of dumped toxic waste contaminating communities around the factory.
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Dow Chemicals and Lord Coe are wrapping London 2012 in shame
Greenpeace and the Indian Centre for Science & Environment state the area around the factory is so saturated with dumped chemicals and heavy metals that they have labelled Bhopal a 'global toxic hotspot'; the disaster is ranked alongside Chernobyl as ...
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Scottish Parliament debates Commonwealth Games (Delivery and Legacy) As many members know, Dow Chemical is the legal owner of Union Carbide, the company that is responsible for one of the world's worst industrial disasters—the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984. It is hard to think of a less appropriate sponsor for a ... |