Tag: Union Carbide

By Pervez Bari BHOPAL: Led by four NGOs, victims of chronic exposure to groundwater contaminated by Union Carbide’s poisonous wastes even today formed a human chain near the long abandoned pesticide factory here on Sunday. Demonstrating on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, the victims demanded free health care, clean-up of the contaminated lands and adequate compensation from Dow Chemical, current owner of Union Carbide. The organizations said that the Madhya Pradesh Government’s plan to build a memorial to the disaster at the factory...