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UCC Plant- Bhopal, India (Google Images)

15: "Bhopal Water Still Toxic Twenty-fiver Years After Deadly Gas Leak
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December 2, 1984, 500,000 people in central India (Bhopal) were poisoned by about forty tons of toxic gases from an abandoned chemical insecticide plant.
-Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)- US owned
-Remains today to be one of the worst industrial disasters in history

8,000 people were killed instantly by methyl isocynate, phosgene and other toxic gases
20,000 more people harmed the following weeks and months
520,000 exposed people still had poison in blood stream
-Permanent lung, liver, kidney, and immune system damages, and blindness

Toxic chemicals leaked into many water supplies within a 2 mile radius of the plant which spread to more than 30,000 people


What does the UCC have to say about this?
Union Carbide Corporation- now Dow Chemical Company

-Claim to have over 60 years of research on methyl isocyanate as "trade secrets"
-Dow held out information and funds to help victims
-Victims could only get local treatment
-24 research studies conducted on victims has yet to be released

"EMPLOYEE SABOTAGE!"
http://www.unioncarbide.com/history/index.htm

20 years later, Dow finally takes the BLAME!!!!!!


(Google search, YouTube.com)

-Dow paid $470 million compensation to the government of India
-Survivors got a check for 25,000 rupee (About $500)

Does this seem fair to those poisoned by this toxic gas leak???


This story had world wide coverage. By just looking up Bhopal, India, hundreds of articles and related material appear about this toxic gas leak. Searching Lexis-Nexus, there were about 1,000 articles that came up from around the world. There was one article that stood out discussing what happened to 8 UCC Executives charged with negligence.

http://www.lexisnexis.com.cobalt.champlain.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/?

INTERESTING FACT: 25 years after the toxic gas leak, eight former executives of the company's Indian subsidiary -- including one who has since died -- were convicted Monday of negligence. The seven surviving defendants were sentenced to two years in prison and fined 100,000 rupees, or $2,100 (Polgreen-Kumar, internet).

This story is not censored throughout the world. To this day, there is still media coverage in Bhopal about the toxic spill. There are articles and video's of people still protesting the plant and still fighting with Dow Chemical Company.

Here is a link to an article published by The Times of India released on July 3rd, 2010.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Dows-double-standards-exposed/articleshow/6122640.cms


Coverage on this tragic incident has been going on for over twenty years. From magazine articles to live news coverage, there are many different opinions and thoughts about what exactly happened in Bhopal. The Internet has proved that this story is one that is not censored. To this day, one can still find information about happenings in Bhopal India still dealing with this historical event.