From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People The effect of all this cost cutting soon began to show. Many workers were exposed to dangerous gases and had to be hospitalised, and in December 1981 one […]
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From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Union Carbide already had a pesticide factory running in a small town in the USA called Institute in West Virginia. When they built the factory in Bhopal, instead
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From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Union Carbide (UCC) built its pesticide factory in Bhopal while the Green Revolution was at its peak. The people managing the corporation thought that because farmers in Madhya
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From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Cunning as they were, these corporations called this kind of agriculture using chemicals – the ‘Green Revolution’. They claimed that the Green Revolution would guarantee that there was
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From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People About 50 years ago, a few large corporations pushed forward a claim that if farmers used synthetic chemicals as fertilizers they could increase food production, and if they
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From IBN Live PTI | 10:03 PM, Mar 01, 2011 Mumbai, Mar 1 (PTI) Taking a serious note of the deaths of two pregnant women allegedly due to the contaminated drinking water, the Bombay High Court
Water contamination can lead to Bhopal-like tragedy: HC Read More »
From IBN Live New Delhi: Bhopal gas victims allege that they are being used as guinea pigs for unethical drug trials without being informed. An RTI has revealed that Bhopal Memorial Hospital has pocketed over Rs
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From India Blooms Mumbai, Mar 2 (IBNS) Bhopal gas survivors on Wednesday said Dow Chemical has been struck off the list of partners to the ongoing Aquatech 2011 water technologies trade fair, after they staged a
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Express News Service Posted online: Tue Mar 01 2011, 05:06 hrs Indian Express Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) and Dow Chemicals issued official statements on Monday saying they were puzzled by the Government of India’s “abrupt turnaround”
UCC, Dow question govt ‘turnaround’ over relief Read More »
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net Bhopal: Representatives of five organizations of the survivors of the December 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the world’s worst industrial catastrophe, on Monday welcomed the admission of the curative petition for enhancement of
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Sathyu talks to Aditi and Andrew, 15-year-old high school students from the US who are studying the impact of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster Aditi & Andrew: Hi Mr Sathyu. First off it is an
Interview with Sathyu, Managing Trustee of Sambhavna Read More »
From NDTV New Delhi: The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre’s plea seeking enhancement of compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from
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