Continuing Disaster
For fifteen years before the gas disaster Union Carbide had routinely dumped highly toxic chemical wastes inside and outside its factory site. After the catastrophic gas leak, the factory was locked up and left to rot, with all the chemicals and wastes still there. Union Carbide left the factory and its surroundings without cleaning them.
Continuing Disaster
For fifteen years before the gas disaster Union Carbide had routinely dumped highly toxic chemical wastes inside and outside its factory site. After the catastrophic gas leak, the factory was locked up and left to rot, with all the chemicals and wastes still there. Union Carbide left the factory and its surroundings without cleaning them.
The Bhopal Gas Disaster
On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a defective tank at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal leaked more than 30 tonnes of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air. By morning, more than half a million people had been exposed, and nearly 4,000 had lost their lives.
Second Poisoning
Thousands of families in Bhopal have been drinking water contaminated with pesticides, chlorinated organic compounds, and heavy metals for decades.
Legal Summary
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) claims that all legal matters concerning the Bhopal disaster are closed. This is simply not true. Dow is a named respondent and / or summoned to appear in a number of ongoing cases arising from Union Carbide’s business in Bhopal.
Technical Analysis
Rethinking Bhopal- A Process Safety Analysis of the Union Carbide Bhopal Plant. A comprehensive examination of the important technical elements of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy by Kenneth Bloch
