right to recompense. See the hypocrisy, the the hypocrisy coming out of American corporatists.
http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/9563/Chemical_Imbalance_in_BhopalResidents protest the involvement of Dow Chemical and the U.S. government in corporation enlisted to 'clean up' contaminated ground
The twenty one year battle continues to bring justice for the survivors of the catastrophic chemical spill which afflicted the Indian city of Bhopal in 1984, exposing half a million to highly toxic gasses. The current death toll is 20,000, with 120,000 still suffering the effects. The company responsible was Union Carbide – now part of Dow Chemicals – and they have been trying to wash their hands of the problem ever since.
Yet while Dow are ducking and diving from a safe distance in the US, those in Bhopal still live with the aftermath of the accident, which was never cleaned up, in their backyard. The site of the abandoned pesticides factory still oozes a cocktail of carcinogenic and mutagenic toxins, which leach from the 5,000 tonnes of waste chemicals chucked into pits.
Naturally Dow thinks somebody else, anybody else, should pay the $48 billion needed for the clean up. When nobody warmed to the idea that gas survivors’ meagre compensation should be used for this purpose they suggested that maybe the Indian taxpayer should cough up instead. When that didn’t work, along came Cherokee Investment Partners.