In 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed nearly 4, 500 people.
And both Union Carbide in Bhopal and BP in the Gulf of Mexico were clearly investments that went wrong.
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There are concerns in India over the company's links to the firm behind the Bhopal gas leak disaster in 1984.
"The Delhi-Bangalore flight was then diverted to Bhopal where it landed safely with the co-pilot in command, " The Hindu reports.
The campaign is organized by the Bhopal Medical Appeal, London Mining Network and UK Tar Sands Network, among other groups.
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It was signed into law by former President Ronald Reagan after the infamous Union Carbide pesticide factory gas leak in Bhopal, India.
On the controversy surrounding Bhopal, the man from Dow Chemical accepts that it may not be possible to put the issue to bed.
The catastrophe at Bhopal, India reveals just how lethal can be the products of some such facilities even when used for civilian purposes.
Union Carbide, a chemicals firm, has a link to information on the deadly Bhopal gas leak in India on its home page, for example.
Dow merged with a company whose subsidiary ran the Bhopal pesticide plant - the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters in 1984.
Thousands of people were killed and injured in 1984 when gas leaked out of a Bhopal pesticide plant that was owned by Union Carbide India Ltd.
He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India, established to help heal people affected by the Bhopal gas tragedy.
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The IOC understands that Dow never owned or operated the facility in Bhopal, and that the State Government of Madhya Pradesh owns and controls the former plant site.
The Bhopal Medical Appeal, which funds clinics in Bhopal, believes that Dow, which bought Union Carbide in 1999, should pay to clean the site and supply funds for victims.
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Following news of the girl's death, opposition Congress Party activists in Madhya Pradesh held a rally in the state capital Bhopal and burned an effigy of the state's chief minister.
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Human rights and environmental pressure groups have campaigned against BP, Dow Chemical - which now owns the firm behind the Bhopal gas leak disaster in 1984 - and Rio Tinto.
Reaching the capital of Bhopal, I found the state's Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, felt the secularism of his Congress party needed to be redefined to take account of India's deeply religious ethos.
In 1999, Dow merged with the Union Carbide Corporation, whose subsidiary Union Carbide India ran the Bhopal pesticide plant - the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters in December 1984.
In recent years, the Indian government has sought more compensation for the victims, but Dow Chemical has denied responsibility for any additional payments, saying the Bhopal accident occurred 17 years before it acquired stock in Union Carbide in 2001.
However, other recent mass killings whether accidental as in Bhopal, natural disasters as in Guatemala or India, or planned as in Chechnya, Rwanda, Tibet, Sudan or Iraq did not receive such sustained media attention and did not happen in the developed world.
In 1999, Dow merged with the Union Carbide Corporation, whose subsidiary Union Carbide India, ran the Bhopal pesticide plant - the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters, in which thousands of people died in the previous decade.
In 1999, Dow merged with the Union Carbide Corporation, whose subsidiary Union Carbide India, ran the Bhopal pesticide plant - the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters which had led to the death of thousands of people in the previous decade.
Similarly, someone on a Dow Chemical computer deleted details of the company's development of birth defect-inducing Agent Orange and the continuing controversy around the Bhopal disaster, in which Union Carbide, a firm that Dow later acquired, was responsible for the death of as many as 22, 000 Indians.
Similarly, someone on a Dow Chemical (nyse: DOW - news - people ) computer deleted details of the company's development of birth defect-inducing Agent Orange and the continuing controversy around the Bhopal disaster, in which Union Carbide, a firm that Dow later acquired, was responsible for the death of as many as 22, 000 Indians.
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