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Report on Bhopal
The Bhopal disaster is an ongoing concern with significant potential to harm the company’s reputation or pose material liabilities, as well as constrain the company’s investment in Asia. Continuing and heated controversy over reparations to victims, deaths and birth defects related to methyl isocyanate exposure, and pollution of the city’s water supply could result in potential legal liability. Dow’s wholly owned subsidiary, Union Carbide has been deemed an “absconder from justice” for failing to appear before the courts in India to face criminal charges stemming from the disaster. Efforts are underway in India to have the courts place responsibility on Dow to require Union Carbide to appear as a defendant in the criminal case. On March 17, 2004 an Appeals Court in New York ordered that US courts consider requests for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater by Dow/Union Carbide. The Appeals Court’s decision would allow some residents to sue for loss of property value and clean-up of contamination. Further, the Court upheld the plaintiffs' right to seek medical monitoring from Dow for injuries and symptoms related to exposure to contaminated groundwater. Between 15,000 – 20,000 are estimated to have died as a direct result of the disaster or from health problems related to it.
Bhopal gas victims on hunger strike for justice 11 Apr 2006 10:45:50 GMT, Source: Reuters NEW DELHI, April 11 (Reuters) - Victims of the Bhopal industrial disaster went on an indefinite hunger strike in the Indian capital on Tuesday to demand a clean-up of toxic wastes left by the 1984 gas leak. More than 3,500 people died inhaling the fumes from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide -- now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co. -- and at least 15,000 have died since from cancer and other diseases, according to official figures. Hunger strike for Bhopal victims By Renu Agal, BBC News, Delhi Six campaigners for victims of the 1984 chemical disaster at Bhopal have started an indefinite hunger strike in the Indian capital, Delhi. The protesters, three of them survivors of the disaster, are demanding health care and social support for victims. Bhopal gas victims in long walk for clean water Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:01 AM ET, By Palash Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - More than 20 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, victims of the Bhopal gas leak have stepped up their campaign for clean drinking water with an indefinite sit-down in the Indian capital. More than 3,500 people died in the days and weeks after toxic fumes spewed out of a pesticide plant in the central Indian city in December 1984.
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