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Bhopal gas victims demand five times the compensation offered (Big News Network.com)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:01:01 GMT

Bhopal, Aug 28 (IANS) Bhopal gas victims here Thursday demanded increased compensation, and said the damage to them due to the gas leak was actually five times more than the figure reached by the government of India and the Union Carbide in 1989.

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Bhopal gas victims demand five times the compensation offered (Thaindian News)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:46:12 GMT

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WVU, Dow Cancel Agreement for South Charleston Research Campus (State Journal Featured Content)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:43:24 GMT

The deal between the university and Union Carbide Corp. fell through July 10.

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Decades After Disaster, Toxic Sludge Torments Bhopal (Free Internet Press)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:17:58 GMT

Hundreds of tons of waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory here, nearly a quarter-century after a poison gas leak killed thousands and turned this ancient city into a notorious symbol of industrial disaster. The toxic remains have yet to be carted away. No one has examined to what extent, over more than...

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Toxic waste still haunts Bhopal (Raw Story)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:44:20 GMT

BHOPAL, India Hundreds of tons of waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory here, nearly a quarter-century after a poison gas leak killed thousands and turned this ancient city into a notorious symbol of industrial disaster...

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Toxic waste remains in Bhopal 24 years after gas disaster (Thaindian News)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:36:58 GMT

New York, July 7 (IANS) Hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste still remains on the grounds of the Bhopal pesticide factory, formerly owned by Union Carbide, a quarter-century after the industrial disaster, due to delays by the government in removing it and the current US owner of the factory washing its hands of the mess, [...]

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Toxic waste remains in India for 24 years (News: Moldova.org: Politics)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:07:00 GMT

A final decision is expected this year on what to do about hundreds of tons of toxic waste on the grounds of a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India.The Union Carbide factory was the site of a poison gas leak in 1984 that killed at least 3,000 area residents and is also blamed for affecting the health of 500,000 others, The New York Times reported Monday.No one examined the soil or determined...

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25 years later, toxic waste plagues Bhopal (Seattle Times)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:17:23 GMT

Hundreds of tons of waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory...

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Decades Later, Toxic Sludge Torments Bhopal (OTB News)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:36:34 GMT

Hundreds of tons of waste languish on the grounds of the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, the site of a notorious disaster that killed thousands.

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25 Years Later, Toxic Sludge Torments Bhopal (New York Times)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:41:49 GMT

Hundreds of tons of waste still languish on the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, the site of a notorious industrial disaster that killed thousands.

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Sunday Countdown 7/6/08 (Alchemy Of Trading, L.L.C.)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:28:18 GMT

Tom DeMark has had a successful career as as an institutional trading advisor and analyst, with clients ranging from IBM and Union Carbide to Paul Tudor Jones and, currently, Steve Cohen of SAC Capital. 'The original TD Sequential and Combo...

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Poisonous Legacy Plagues Bhopal Near Old Plant, Tainted Water and a Storehouse of Waste (Red Orbit )

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:00:43 GMT

By Somini Sengupta Nearly a quarter-century after gusts of poison gas leaked out of the Union Carbide pesticide factory here, killing thousands and turning this ancient city into a notorious symbol of industrial disaster, hundreds of tons of toxic waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old factory grounds, with a rolling, padlocked shutter for a gate.

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40 tonnes of chemical residues removed from Bhopal plant (Thaindian News)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:02:21 GMT

Bhopal, July 1 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government Tuesday removed 40 tonnes of chemical residues from the premises of the now defunct Union Carbide pesticide plant, which led to the world’s worst industrial disaster in 1984. These chemical residues, in the form of lime sledge, were lying in the plant premises ever since the gas [...]

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TOXIC QUESTIONS (Indian Express)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:57:01 GMT

Did the deadly chemicals contaminate the ground water after the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal?

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Indra Sinha: Why I'm going on hunger strike for Bhopal (The Guardian)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Indra Sinha: Victims of the Union Carbide gas leak continue to suffer, their injuries and deaths uncompensated. We must support them

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Sunday Countdown 6/8/08 (Alchemy Of Trading, L.L.C.)

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:28:32 GMT

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Bhopal gas survivors to ‘expose’ Kamal Nath (Hindu)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:10:22 GMT

Accuse the Union Minister of helping Union Carbide

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Fixing corporate responsibility (Indian Express)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:57:20 GMT

Despite the passage of over 23 years since the Bhopal gas tragedy, apart from the clean-up of the Union Carbide plant site, the government of India has not amended the Companies Act, 1956, to fix the corporate responsibility for future industrial disasters.

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Bhopal gas tragedy: Case against Dow won't be withdrawn (Times of India)

Thu, 29 May 2008 22:11:38 GMT

The government is, however, yet to take a decision on pursuing the issue of extradition of the absconding Union Carbide officials.

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Dow Chemical: Liable for Bhopal? (Business Week )

Thu, 29 May 2008 08:05:20 GMT

The 1984 disaster was Union Carbide's fault, but many Indians want to hold Dow accountable.

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