Greenpeace International has published a damning
report on the toxic chemical stockpiles that remain to be dealt with by
The Dow Chemical Company at the scene of one of the world's worst industrial accidents ever... a
pesticide factory in Bhopal, India.
The
1984 gas leak at this factory (then owned by
Union Carbide)
rapidly killed 3,000 people, is thought to have killed as many as 20,000 to this day + still leaves 100,000 people ill.
Also see the
CorpWatch India Bulletin Board,
The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal + The
BBC's Bhopal site to find out more on the
continuing legal saga + the disaster's long-term consequences.
WARNING:
These sites contain many disturbing images!
Interestingly,
Union Carbide's own Bhopal site includes the estimate that the
$470 million settlement reached in the
Indian courts in 1989 will be worth the equivalent of $3.1 billion over the
20 years it is likely to take to
finalise payments to the victims...
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