* 1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $ 470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.

International catastrophes such as the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in 1978 and the Bhopal disaster in 1984 have demonstrated the universality of such events and the scale on which efforts to address them needed to engage.

** Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8, 000 people outright and injures over half a million ( with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23, 000 +) in the worst industrial disaster in history.

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The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters.

Civil and criminal cases are pending in the United States District Court, Manhattan and the District Court of Bhopal, India, involving UCC, UCIL employees, and Warren Anderson, UCC CEO at the time of the disaster.

Union Carbide stated that it also undertook several steps to provide continuing aid to the victims of the Bhopal disaster.

Legal proceedings involving UCC, the United States and Indian governments, local Bhopal authorities, and the disaster victims started immediately after the catastrophe.

However, the Indian Government passed the Bhopal Gas Leak Act in March 1985, allowing the Government of India to act as the legal representative for victims of the disaster, leading to the beginning of legal wrangling.

In 1985, Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, called for a US government inquiry into the Bhopal disaster, which resulted in US legislation regarding the accidental release of toxic chemicals in the United States.

Eventually, in an out-of-court settlement reached in 1989, Union Carbide agreed to pay US $ for damages caused in the Bhopal disaster, 15 % of the original claimed in the lawsuit.

It also requested UCC and its subsidiary " voluntarily " fund a hospital in Bhopal, at an estimated, to specifically treat victims of the Bhopal disaster.

The U. S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the decision of the lower federal courts in October 1993, meaning that victims of the Bhopal disaster could not seek damages in a US court.

It revealed that Dow Chemical had engaged Stratfor to spy on the public and personal lives of activists involved in the Bhopal disaster, including the Yes Men.

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In November 2006, survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster were outraged by Ratan Tata ’ s offer to bail out Union Carbide and facilitate investments by Carbide ’ s new owner Dow Chemical.

* Union Carbide Corporation, a chemical and polymer company, responsible for the Bhopal disaster in 1984.

The company is also notorious for numerous serious public health incidents, particularly the Bhopal disaster ( 1984 ) in which a major toxic gas leak from a production centre in Bhopal caused over 3000 deaths and seriously injured 400, 000 others in the surrounding residential area.

The Bhopal disaster was an industrial disaster that took place at a Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

The arrest, which took place at the airport, ensured Anderson would meet no harm by the Bhopal community.

29 years old, and a Sepoy in the 9th Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

The 30th and 31st Punjabis along with the 9th Bhopal took part in the Second Afghan War of 1878-80, while the 33rd Punjabis served in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1885-87.

A few days later, however, a written debate did take place between Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Maulwi Muhammad Bashir of Bhopal, which was later published.

* 1984 – Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3, 800 people outright and injures 150, 000 – 600, 000 others ( some 6, 000 of whom would later die from their injuries ) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

It occurred on the night of 2 – 3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited ( UCIL ) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Union Carbide sold UCIL, the Bhopal plant operator, to Eveready Industries India Limited in 1994.

The Bhopal plant was later sold to McLeod Russel ( India ) Ltd. Dow Chemical Company purchased UCC in 2001.

After the Bhopal plant was built, other manufacturers including Bayer produced carbaryl without MIC, though at a greater manufacturing cost.

The chemical process employed in the Bhopal plant had methylamine reacting with phosgene to form MIC ( methyl isocyanate ), which was then reacted with 1-naphthol to form the final product, carbaryl.

The litigation seeks damages for personal injury, medical monitoring and injunctive relief in the form of cleanup of the drinking water supplies for residential areas near the Bhopal plant.

* 28 August – Chief magistrate Rameshwar Kotha of the Bhopal High Court rejects the federal Central Bureau of Investigation's attempt to reduce charges against the former chairman of the U. S. Union Carbide company, Warren Anderson, for responsibility for the 1984 chemical plant disaster at Bhopal.

* 3 December-Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, kills more than 2, 000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15, 000 to 22, 000 others ( some 6, 000 of whom later die from their injuries ) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

In another example of foreign environmental racism, in 1984, both the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, and the PEMEX liquid propane gas plant in Mexico City, where minorities reside, blew up, killing thousands and injuring roughly a million nearby residents .< ref > 1. Shroeder, Richard, Kevin St. Martin, Bradley Wilson, and Debarati Sen. " Third World Environmental Justice.

During the early morning hours of December 3, 1984, a Union Carbide plant in a village just South of Bhopal, India released approximately forty tons of Methyl Isocyanate ( MIC ) into the air.

A week after the Bhopal accident, on December 11, 1984, Hank Karawan, then plant manager of the Union Carbide's Institute facility, held a press conference at which he expressed his confidence in the safety of the Institute plant's operations:

All of us here at the Institute plant have been deeply saddened by the tragic event in India and we extend our sympathy to all the people in the city of Bhopal.

Both the Bhopal and the Institute incidents underscored the reality of modern-day chemical production — no matter what safety precautions are taken, no matter how well trained a plant's employees may be, and no matter how prepared a plant may be to handle an emergency situation, accidents will occur and people will die.

It has contributed to industrial chemical accidents, most notably the 1947 Texas City disaster from overheated ammonium nitrate in a ship's hold, and the disastrous release of a large volume of methyl isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India in 1984.

However, this innovative jurisprudence did not help the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy who were unable to fully prosecute a class action litigation ( as understood in the American sense ) against Union Carbide due to procedural rules that would make such litigation impossible to conclude and unwieldy to carry out.

* 1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.

** Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $ 470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.

On 8 June 2012, the Centre for incineration of toxic Bhopal waste agreed to pay to dispose of Union carbide chemical plants waste in Germany.

In 2005, the state government invited various Indian architects to enter their " concept for development of a memorial complex for Bhopal gas tragedy victims at the site of Union Carbide ".

On 4 December, the day following the leak, Union Carbide sent material aid and several international medical experts to assist the medical facilities in Bhopal.

March 1986 saw Union Carbide propose a settlement figure, endorsed by plaintiffs ' US attorneys, of that would, according to the company, " generate a fund for Bhopal victims of between over 20 years ".

In the view of UCC, " the ruling reaffirms UCC's long-held positions and finally puts to rest — both procedurally and substantively — the issues raised in the class action complaint first filed against Union Carbide in 1999 by Haseena Bi and several organizations representing the residents of Bhopal ".

A Killing Wind: Inside Union Carbide and the Bhopal Catastrophe.

* Union Carbide India Limited, Agricultural Products Division: Bhopal ( 1978 )

" US Capital versus the Third World: Union Carbide and Bhopal " in Global Crime Connections: Dynamics and Control.

Travelling through 14 States and two Union Territories, the yatris congregated at Bhopal on September 25 in a massive rally.