[DanaScully]

West Virginia 1985 Bhopal Disaster Revisited & It's Impact Still Today


Below is a Link from Wikipedia to read about it in full:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Considered the world's worst industrial disaster. Over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC).Estimates vary on the death toll, with the official number of immediate deaths being 2,259.

And in our own country the previous year on December 3, 1984, wedged between a green hillside and the Kanawha River, the sprawling facility defined as West Virginia’s “Chemical Valley”; a toxic event occurred. 40 tons of a toxic gas spewed from the factory and scorched the throats, eyes, and lives of thousands of people. Union Carbide Disaster is what it was called then. And the company still makes the same chemicals and is currently being sued by the adjacent university for the cancer causing groundwater that has tainted the soil beneath their school ever since. And the threat this time: ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical that facilities like the Union Carbide plant, now owned by Dow Chemical, make and that helps produce a huge variety of products, including antifreeze, pesticides and sterilizing agents for medical tools.

West Virginia State, starved of state funding for years, has struggled to expand and recruit students. The school is now suing Dow Chemical, the plant’s owner, and arguing that contaminated groundwater beneath the campus inhibits the school’s development plans and harms its national reputation. Dow has sought to dismiss the case, and an appeals court is considering whether the matter belongs in state or federal court.

[spycosis]

I remember this happening. On the British news it was never referred to as the Union Carbide disaster, but as the Bhopal disaster. Some documentaries exposed corruption and incompetence going all the way through that company, that led to the poisoning of thousands of people. If that had happened in China the plant owners would have been executed for their deadly incompetence.

[jjbond]

Like the old joke says, "who killed more Indians than Custer?".... Union Carbide.