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Bhopal: A Legal, Environmental and Human Disaster

Bhopal: A Legal, Environmental and Human Disaster. “A Hand in Things to Come ” Union Carbide comes to India : 1972. UCIL factory to produce pesticide (Sevin) in the center of Bhopal. Photo credit : Raghu Rai. Biases in Establishment of the Factory. Sited in a poor neighborhood

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Bhopal: A Legal, Environmental and Human Disaster

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  1. Bhopal: A Legal, Environmental and Human Disaster

  2. “A Hand in Things to Come” Union Carbide comes to India : 1972

  3. UCIL factory to produce pesticide (Sevin) in the center of Bhopal. Photo credit : Raghu Rai

  4. Biases in Establishment of the Factory • Sited in a poor neighborhood • No community involvement • No disaster planning or evacuation plan

  5. The UCIL Factory • A lethal process using MIC • Inferior technology • Cost cutting from safety features of factory

  6. Disaster strikes at midnight Dec2-3rd, 1984 while Bhopal is asleep.

  7. Dream turns into a nightmare. Photo credit: Raghu Rai

  8. Death estimates vary from 3000 to 10,000 that night.Photo credit: Raghu Rai

  9. Dysfunctional Safety Features

  10. 40 tonnes of MIC held without refrigeration.

  11. Medical Response: At Hamidia Hospital

  12. Badly damaged eyes and lungs.Photo credit: Raghu Rai

  13. Biased Treatment of Survivors • Composition of MIC for medical support – not revealed till today! • Chaotic treatment of impoverished survivors. • Blind hysterectomy suggested in gynecological problems. • All studies by ICMR stopped in 1992. • No support for Trans-generational abnormalities

  14. Compensation • Running between legal systems of India and US • Original suit: $3.3 billion; Settled for: $470 million • $500 per affected Bhopali family Versus $900 per affected US sea otter (Exxon Valdez oil spill). • Representation of all victims and survivors by Govt. of India

  15. WARNING! Trespassers will NOT be prosecuted. The soil & water of Bhopal have been contaminated.

  16. Results of Study done by Shristi[Surviving Bhopal, 2002]

  17. Water contaminants in Bhopal against standards BIS - Bureau of Indian Standards ICRCL – Interdepartmental Comm. for the redevelopment of contaminated land (UK). USEPA – United States Environment Protection Agency

  18. Women’s daily lives revolve around water.

  19. Rehabilitation: Sambhavna Clinic

  20. We all live in …

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