Incinerating Union Carbide’s ghosts: 337 tonnes of waste, 40 workers & a 250-km journey
This waste was generated during pesticide production at the UCIL factory between 1969 and 1984 and was dumped on the premises ...
Union Carbide waste locked up in containers and waiting to be burnt, a village says, ‘Not in our backyard’
Even as 337 MT of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant in Bhopal has been moved to Pithampur, ...
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Pithampur on warpath as Bhopal’s toxic Union Carbide headache homes in
BHOPAL: Forty years after a late-night leak of noxious methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas at the Union Carbide India Limited’s (UCIL) pesticide plant killed over 5,500 people in its vicinity in Bhopal ...
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Bhopal revisited~I
UCC chose to start producing MIC in UCIL’s factory in Bhopal. UCC took a cue from the co – mment once made for developing co – untries by Lawrence Summer, ex chief economist of World Bank ...
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Green Corridor To Shift Toxic Waste From Bhopal's UCIL To Pithampur
(MENAFN- IANS) Bhopal, Dec 31 (IANS) Over 12 containers, carrying around 337 tonnes of toxic waste, from the premises of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) will drive to Indore's Pithampur area ...
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Toxic waste from world’s deadliest industrial disaster taken away for disposal after 40 years
40 yrs after the world's worst ever industrial disaster, the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 337 MT toxic waste lying at the closed UCIL pesticide plant in Bhopal, starts being shifted in containers to ...
Bhopal’s 40-year-old past is Pithampur’s paranoid future
It is now a few days past the protests and life in the densely-populated town has resumed its regular pace, with markets open ...
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Why Are Locals Protesting The Waste Disposal Process | Explained
The night of December 2-3, 1984 left more than 5,479 people dead and lakhs injured in Bhopal. The Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal released a toxic cloud of methyl ...
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337 MT toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak site to be shifted to Pithampur
Swatantra Kumar Singh, commissioner of the rehabilitation department, said, “The disposal of hazardous waste stored at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) site in Bhopal marks a crucial ...
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Amid protests, 337 metric tons of toxic waste from Bhopal gas tragedy leaves for disposal at Pithampur
The transportation of the waste from the closed UCIL factory in Bhopal to the TSDF in Pithampur is happening in compliance with MP High Court’s December 2, 2024 order, which gave four weeks to ...
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The petition that unearthed city’s buried contamination
"The situation should matter to everyone who lives in Bhopal. We are yet to fully understand what lies beneath. It is not just 348 off MT of waste above the ground, we need clean UCIL toxic waste ...
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Bhopal’s toxic waste: A 40-year journey
After decades of struggle, Bhopal residents see hope as the government ... “Our locality is just 1km from the UCIL (Union Carbide India Limited)factory. My family is now battling facing skin ...