Keyword: Union Carbide

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Agrochemicals – a Modern Love Story

04.04.2016 - Until recently, few outsiders would have called the agricultural chemicals sector exciting. It’s hard to imagine, for example, a thriller or torrid love story or even a poem set in...

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Third Summons Against Dow for UCC’s 1984 Bhopal Leak

06.08.2014 - At the instigation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal, India, has issued a third criminal summons to Dow Chemical over the deadly...

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Qapco Chooses Unipol PE and PP Processes for Ras Laffan Complex

08.07.2013 - Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco) is lining up technology for the Al Sejeel petrochemical and commodity plastics production complex it is building at Ras Laffan, Qatar, and set...

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GE Unlikely To Face Liability in Japanese Nuclear Crisis

04.04.2011 - The Japanese nuclear crisis has created a public-relations headache for General Electric, but the company so far has escaped any legal fallout, and many experts expect it will...

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Bhopal Gas Victims: India To Pay Extra $15.8 Million

19.11.2010 - India will pay an extra 713 million rupees ($15.8 million) in compensation to the victims of the world's worst industrial accident that killed thousands in 1984, the government...

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India Says It May Examine Dow's Liability in Bhopal Case

22.06.2010 - India may ask its courts to examine if Dow Chemical is liable for damages after it bought over the firm blamed for one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed...

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Indian Court Finds 8 Guilty in Bhopal Gas Disaster

07.06.2010 - A court on Monday found the Indian unit of U.S. chemicals firm Union Carbide and seven Indian employees guilty of negligence over one of the world's worst industrial accidents that...