Bhopal still affected by poison legacy 25 years after deadly accidentGroundwater at the site of the world's worst industrial accident in Bhopal, India is still toxic, and make in-patients 25 years after a gas leak killed thousands, and studies on Tuesday.
Analysis is based in the United Kingdom in Bhopal Medical Appeal (BMA), also questioned the research on the impact of the disaster in a pesticide plant of Union Carbide, where methyl isocyanate gas tank delivered December 3, 1984.
Activists say more than 350 tons of toxic waste are still scattered around, polluting the soil and groundwater in the region, leading to cancer, birth defects, immune suppression and other diseases.And internal documents the company has been dumping thousands of tons of waste in all parts of the plant for a year before the accident, while the government and the state does not deny the existence of the article, which says it is not harmful.
Union Carbide - bought by Dow Chemical in 1999 - urged that all obligations to the facility in 1989 was removed from the court settlement equal to 470 Union Carbide - bought by Dow Chemical in 1999 - urged that all obligations to the facility in 1989 was deleted from the right solution, a value of 470 million U.S. dollars, most of which were used to compensate victims.
A 2004 High Court order that the state government to clean up the waste has led to only a partial removal of toxins.
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