by soothsayer99
"In the early hours of December 3, 1984, chaos and panic broke out as a poisonous cloud, twice as heavy as air, enveloped the Indian city of Bhopal, wafting into homes, schools, temples, everywhere..... This was the world’s worst industrial disaster: 25,000 people died while another 100,000 to 200,000 people were estimated to have crippling injuries, according to independent sources."
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
British Petroleum's Bhopal
by Stranded Wind
The evening of December 2nd was quiet and normal in the Indian state of Madha Pradesh. The dawn on December 3rd found almost 3,800 dead and half a million poisoned due to negligence at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the state's capitol of Bhopal. Twenty five years on the arrest warrant for then CEO Warren Anderson goes unserved. Criminal and civil cases continue to wind their way through courts in India and the United States. Justice delayed is justice denied; Anderson has slipped from sight and may already have died of old age, while the victims of Union Carbide of all ages live with the misery brought by relentless, irresponsible pursuit of profits. It will be interesting, and all too predictable to watch British Petroleum play this very same game as they poison the fish, birds, and whales, along with those who inhabit the states that surround the Gulf of Mexico.
continued at Daily Kos....
The evening of December 2nd was quiet and normal in the Indian state of Madha Pradesh. The dawn on December 3rd found almost 3,800 dead and half a million poisoned due to negligence at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the state's capitol of Bhopal. Twenty five years on the arrest warrant for then CEO Warren Anderson goes unserved. Criminal and civil cases continue to wind their way through courts in India and the United States. Justice delayed is justice denied; Anderson has slipped from sight and may already have died of old age, while the victims of Union Carbide of all ages live with the misery brought by relentless, irresponsible pursuit of profits. It will be interesting, and all too predictable to watch British Petroleum play this very same game as they poison the fish, birds, and whales, along with those who inhabit the states that surround the Gulf of Mexico.
continued at Daily Kos....
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