This Supreme Court order dated May 11, 2011 dismissed CBI's curative petition against the 1996 apex court judgement on Bhopal gas tragedy that diluted the criminal charges against UCIL top brass including its Bhopal unit head Keshub Mahendra. Supreme Court order on curative petition Nos. 39-42 of 2010 in criminal …
A DELHI court has allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairperson Warren Anderson, the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, from the US. Anderson, 90, has never faced trial in the case. On March 23, while allowing CBI’s plea …
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking increase in compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia also …
On the government decision not to pursue Bhopal gas victims’ case in the New York court It is ill-considered and neither in the interest of the victims nor of India. It benefits Dow Chemical Company (Union Carbide is now a subsidiary of Dow) that has asserted it is not subject …
The Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory at Bhopal, abandoned after the world’s worst industrial disaster that took place on December 3, 1984, is still heavily contaminated with a range of persistent pollutants. From this study it can be concluded that even after 25 years the residents of the area …
Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal. I opened the gate, unlocked the door downstairs, ran up the steps to the first floor and opened the door to my apartment. Normally the caller would have given up, …
Has Bhopal taught the nation how to ensure industrial safety? Following the Bhopal accident, several pieces of legislation came into force, the prime one being the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986. In 1987 a new chapter was added to the Factories Act, 1948, in the aftermath of Bhopal and the …
There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur. It needs to be treated and safely disposed of. The report said up to two metres of soil will need to be …
The Bhopal question has one more angle: why was there so much public and media outrage over this 25-year-old issue? Why did the national media focus on this story, which till now had been consigned to the backrooms where only noisy environmental activists live? Many things, I believe, have contributed …
The National Green Tribunal Act 2010 approved by the President of India on June 2, 2010. It provides for establishment of National Green Tribunal- a special fast-track court for speedy disposal of environment-related civil cases. An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Green Tribunal for the effective …
For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards.
Joseph John Rescue workers waited with masks, stretchers and sheets for bodies as heavy earth moving equipment tried to clear debris of a giant chimney that collapsed Wednesday at the Korba power plant site of the Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO), killing at least 25 people and trapping many others. Hopes …
At least two industrial workers were killed and seven others received burn wounds in an explosion at a chemical unit in the Tarapur MIDC early on Sunday. Two workers were killed and seven others received burn injuries in an explosion in a chemical unit in Tarapur MIDC, the industrial estate …
Eight people, including three women, died and 64 were injured in a major fire in an industrial estate in Byculla on Monday afternoon. Only one of the injured is said be in a serious condition. The fire gutted the top two floors of the four-storied Retiwala Industrial Estate trapping many …
Two separate incidents of fire were reported in Pimpri-Chinchwad on Sunday afternoon. While an explosion in Hibsonfine Chemical Pvt Ltd, Chinchwad MIDC, caused a major fire, injuring one; dry grass caught fire at Pune Bottling Company in Kasarwadi. While the Pimpri fire officials received a call at around 2.30 pm, …
The National Disaster Management Authority conducted an Industrial disaster drill at Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Assam Oil division's) at Digboi Refinery recently. The drill was conducted to test the preparedness of the civil administration concerned in the event of a major industrial disaster. The scenario envisaged for the disaster involved …
JUSTICE continues to elude the surviving victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984 when 40 tonnes of the poisonous gas, methyl isocyanate, leaked from a Union Carbide factory in the town and other toxic chemicals leached into the ground. This injustice haunts not only lakhs of victims of the …
KOLKATA, Feb. 17: A three-storeyed leather goods manufacturing unit in Kasba Industrial Estate was completely gutted and leather products worth several lakhs were reduced to ashes in a fire that broke out around 8 am today. However, there were no reports of any injury or casualty. Seventeen fire tenders fought …
Nine years after the Bhopal methyl isocyanate disaster, we examined the effects of exposures among a cross-section of current residents and a subset of those with persistent symptoms. We estimated individual exposures by developing exposure indices based on activity, exposure duration, and distance of residence from the plant. Original Source
