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To: LindyBill who wrote (20504)	3/3/2002 9:32:37 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) of 281500

LindyBill Save your sympathies for Union Carbide. In US, companies have incurred huge liabilities for doubtful hazards (Asbestos, Silicone Implants). Union Carbide deserved it. Lots of people died, many were blinded, and many still suffer from health effects. >the company really got screwed by having to pay for what was really the fault of India's government. > Fault of India's govt?? Explain that please. And to quote from the following article. corpwatch.org >On the night of December 2-3, 1984, over 40 tonnes of poisonous gases leaked from a pesticide factory in Bhopal belonging to US-based multinational Union Carbide Corporation, killing more than 20,000 residents. The management's cost cutting measures had effectively disabled safety procedures essential to prevent or alert employees of such disasters. More than 120,000 of the city's residents suffer from chronic gas-related disorders today and 10 to 15 continue to die every month. Additionally, Union Carbide's routine pollution even prior to the gas disaster had led to the accumulation of several thousand tonnes of toxic waste which now lie abandoned in and around the factory. Soil and groundwater in and around the factory remain contaminated in what the environmental group Greenpeace has called a "global toxic hotspot.">

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