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HISTORICAL FACTS: Union carbide - The Untold Story

In 1892, A North Carolina furnace test for cheap aluminum produced an unexpected solid; that accident helped build the industrial Acetylene Age

A chance discovery in 1892 by Willson in North Carolina led to calcium carbide. This substance could produce acetylene gas. Acetylene provided bright light without electricity. It also served mining and welding industries. This accidental find transformed industrial chemistry. It paved the way for Union Carbide. The event highlights how…

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Bhopal Gas Tragedy: SC refuses to block MP HC order on waste disposal

The Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that it will not intervene in the matter concerning the disposal of waste at the Union Carbide Plant as the Madhya Pradesh High Court is already monitoring it. Read further on Dynmite News:

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Bhopal tragedy, Delhi haze, Assam mine deaths: One thread binds them all

A haze hangs over many cities in India, including New Delhi. It contains poisons that can permanently debilitate millions of people; in fact it has already done that.

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HC gives 6 weeks to MP Govt for Union Carbide waste disposal as per norms

The waste, packed in 12 sealed containers, was shifted from Bhopal to the disposal site at Pithampur in Dhar district on January 2. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Protest in Pithampur over Union Carbide waste shifting

After four decades of Bhopal gas tragedy the toxic waste materials from the Union Carbide factory site were transported to Pithampur for its safe disposal. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Removal of waste from site of 1984 Bhopal disaster dismissed as ‘farce’

Indian government accused of PR stunt after moving 337 tonnes of toxic waste that had been held in containers

The Guardian - UK

Toxic waste from world’s deadliest industrial disaster taken away for disposal after 40 years

Gas leak from Union Carbide pesticide plant in 1984 killed over 20,000 people and poisoned half a million

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India clears toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak site, 40 years after disaster

Authorities say incinerating poison is environmentally safe as activists raise alarm over potential water contamination.

Al Jazeera

'Toxic waste' at Union Carbide Factory Bhopal to be disposed after HC order

The process of packing the waste materials at the factory in the state capital began with full protection on Tuesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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40 years after Bhopal gas tragedy, barefoot school ‘offers hope’

Former students at a school for children of survivors of the 1984 disaster recall families’ struggles in the aftermath.

Al Jazeera

Bhopal: after 40 years, ongoing effects of world’s worst industrial disaster show environmental racism is alive and well

In the early hours of December 3 1984, 27 tonnes of toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage tank at Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide plant on the outskirts of the central Indian city of Bhopal. Amnesty International estimates that more than 22,000 people have died as a result of…

The Conversation

Campaigners continue fight for justice 40 years after Bhopal chemical disaster

Nathuram Soni vividly remembers the night 40 years ago when toxic gas swept through Bhopal killing more than 3,500 people in the shanties surrounding the Union Carbide pesticides plant.

Radio France Internationale

Bhopal gas tragedy | Pleas seeking Dow Chemical to be made accused posted to Jan 6

Judicial Magistrate First Class Vidhan Maheshwari on Saturday adjourned the hearing until January 6 after the American multinational corporation contended the case does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Bhopal court that served a show cause notice to it on the pleas of petitioners.

The Hindu

The long, dark shadow of Bhopal: still waiting for justice, four decades on

It’s almost 40 years since a cloud of poisonous gas leaked from the Union Carbide chemical plant in the Indian city, but for many people the devastating contamination still blights their lives. Photographer Judah Passow spent a year recording the lives of some victims of the disaster

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Al Jazeera

Does India have enough insurance coverage for a nuclear disaster?

India has barely half the insurance amount required for current nuclear plants, and has many more plants in the works.

Dynamite News

SC rejects Centre's plea for more compensation for Bhopal gas tragedy victims

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Centre's curative plea for enhanced compensation for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy from US-based firm Union Carbide Corporation, now owned by Dow Chemicals. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Conversation

My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the ocean

I am obsessed with plastic objects. I harvest them from the ocean for the stories they hold and to mitigate their ability to harm. Each object has the potential to be a message from the sea – a poem, a cipher, a metaphor, a warning.

The Times of India

Trending news from India

The Supreme Court said the Centre is not prevented from increasing the amount of compensation to the victims of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy and it can pay the amount from its pocket, not seek re-opening of its settlement with Union Carbide to increase a claim it accepted more than…

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Al Jazeera

Bhopal disaster’s perpetrators used ‘dummy’ firms to keep biz on

Several Indian gov’t firms bought Union Carbide products through a backdoor channel for up to 14 years.

The Hindu

Centre not taking clear stand on curative plea in Bhopal tragedy aid case

The lack of a clear stand by the Centre before a Bench led by Justice S.K. Kaul conveys a sea change in the government’s stance

The Hindu

Bhopal gas tragedy | SC grants time till October 11 to get instructions from Centre on compensation

The victims, represented by advocate Karuna Nundy, said the court should hear them irrespective of the government’s decision.

The Independent UK

Georgia spaceport land deal is off, site owner says

The owner of a 4,000-acre industrial site says it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell the property to a Georgia county seeking to build a launch pad for commercial rockets

The Times of India

Bhopal: Gas victims meet Union minister to narrate their plight, demand medical rehabilitation

BHOPAL: A delegation of Bhopal gas victims met the Union minister for health, chemical and fetiliser Mansukh Mandaviya to apprise him of their grievances about poor medical rehabilitation.

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