Union Carbide Archive

  • It is high time the proceedings and action of US-India CEO Forum are brought under parliamentary scrutiny because the Forum is interfering even with the due process of law in the matter of making Union Carbide Corporation and Dow Chemicals Company accountable to provide legal remedy to the victims of world’s worst industrial disaster. 

    Has the UPA govt betrayed Bhopal disaster victims?

    Posted on November 2, 2010 | 20 Comments
    It is high time the proceedings and action of US-India CEO Forum are brought under parliamentary scrutiny because the Forum is interfering even with the due process of law in the matter of making Union Carbide Corporation and Dow Chemicals Company accountable to provide legal remedy to the victims of world’s worst industrial disaster. 

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  • Prashant Bhushan, one of India's leading advocates, is facing contempt proceedings after he alleged in an interview that eight of the last 16 Chief Justices of India were corrupt. His father and India's former law minister, Shanti Bhushan, recently sought to implead himself in the contempt petition filed against his son. The father-son duo's attempt to cleanse India's higher judiciary of corruption is courageous but former attorney general Soli Sorabjee thought otherwise. The letter is in response to the unfortunate remarks by a very senior legal luminary.

    Corrupt judges: Open letter to Soli Sorabjee

    Posted on September 22, 2010 | 4 Comments
    Prashant Bhushan, one of India's leading advocates, is facing contempt proceedings after he alleged in an interview that eight of the last 16 Chief Justices of India were corrupt. His father and India's former law minister, Shanti Bhushan, recently sought to implead himself in the contempt petition filed against his son. The father-son duo's attempt to cleanse India's higher judiciary of corruption is courageous but former attorney general Soli Sorabjee thought otherwise. The letter is in response to the unfortunate remarks by a very senior legal luminary.

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  • Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and ex-officio Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, one of the drafters of the Bill is guilty of ignoring the consequences of possible nuclear disaster because his text has privatized profits and made liabilities public. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is in-charge of Department of Atomic Energy, appears to be guilty of dereliction of duty as well. The Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests chaired by T Subbirami Reddy reveals their culpability quite categorically.

    Is the Nuclear Liability Bill good for India?

    Posted on August 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and ex-officio Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, one of the drafters of the Bill is guilty of ignoring the consequences of possible nuclear disaster because his text has privatized profits and made liabilities public. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is in-charge of Department of Atomic Energy, appears to be guilty of dereliction of duty as well. The Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests chaired by T Subbirami Reddy reveals their culpability quite categorically.

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  • The 55-page PMO documents gathered using Right to Information Act (RTI) shows manifest collusion between ministers, officials and Dow Chemicals to protect it from the liabilities of industrial catastrophe of Bhopal. The documents reveal how some of the ministers who have been made part of Group of Ministers (GoM) by the Prime Minister have been acting to safeguard the interest of the US corporation in question, which is liable for Bhopal disaster.

    Is the new GoM on Bhopal gas tragedy a farce?

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | 3 Comments
    The 55-page PMO documents gathered using Right to Information Act (RTI) shows manifest collusion between ministers, officials and Dow Chemicals to protect it from the liabilities of industrial catastrophe of Bhopal. The documents reveal how some of the ministers who have been made part of Group of Ministers (GoM) by the Prime Minister have been acting to safeguard the interest of the US corporation in question, which is liable for Bhopal disaster.

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