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Chemical Industry
Of biome blues
Issue Date: Aug 31, 1996
Follow-up
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2008
Dow in trouble again: The Maharashtra government has ordered setting up of a committee to look into
Dow Chemical's proposed research and development centre near Pune. It will examine the facility's impact on environment and the list of
hazardous chemicals proposed to be used at the centre (see 'Pune protests Dow research facility', Down To Earth, March 31,
2008).
People of Shinde-Vasuli village, about 40 km from Pune, where the Rs 400-crore centre will come up, said the committee was set up to stop
Fictitious body stings Dow
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2008
Activists of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal played a prank at the chemical export exhibition India Chem to expose the dealings of Dow Chemicals.
Dow ransacked
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2008
Villagers set R&D centre near Pune on fire
On July 25, over 150 villagers entered Dow's upcoming research and development (R&D) centre in Shendi village near Pune, destroyed the partially-built compound wall, and set the facility on fire. The police have arrested 15 villagers on charges of vandalism. To keep the situation under control, the state rural police force has been deployed at the site.
Interview: Ravi Aggarwal on different aspects of chemical regulation
@soulmoksha Issue Date: Jun 30, 2008
ravi aggarwal, director of ngo Toxic Links, has recently been conferred the
who/ifcs (Chemical Safety) Special Recognition Award. He talks to arnab pratim dutta
on different aspects of chemical regulation
india: There is a hazardous waste law and a hazardous chemical law. But these don't cover how a
Tanzania defends Tata's soda ash plant
Issue Date: May 31, 2008
tanzanias state-run National Development Corporation (ndc) has brushed aside concerns raised by conservation groups that Tata Chemicals proposed soda ash plant would threaten lesser flamingos (Phoenicopterus minor) visiting lake Natron. It now plans to shift the plant 35 km from the lakeshore and says this would help preserve the pink flamingos, a major tourist attraction.
Toxic waste kept for safe disposal in Bharuch catches fire
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2008
Chemical cowboys
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2008
the recent fire at Bharuch Enviro Infrastructure Limited (beil) at Ankleshwar, Gujarat, may not be a 'big news' for there was no body count, fortunately (see page 9). But it is a grim reminder of the state of the powerful chemical industry that has turned the whole earth into a combustion chamber. The beil plant, with majority equity held by pesticide heavyweight United Phosphorus Limited (upl), was set up to manage and dispose of hazardous industrial waste.
Maharashtra, pollution board differ on Dow plant
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2008
On March 28, following a high-powered state committee's report clearing the project, Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh gave Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd's proposed research and development (r&d) centre in Shendi village near Pune the go-ahead to begin construction.
News - In short
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2008
spoiling act A group of activists has alleged that a few countries led by Canada are sabotagingun's Rotterdam Convention. The ten-year old convention aims to control global trade in hazardous chemicals.
Environmental, gender, labour and health groups from India and abroad have, in a joint statement, said the countries, including India and many other developing countries, are blocking implementation of the convention that 120 countries have ratified.
