Toxic waste from 1984 Bhopal disaster to be burned

[Omaha Steve]

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=220840330&p=zzx84yx36

Toxic waste from 1984 Bhopal disaster to be burned
29/05/2007 - 10:14:07

An Indian firm plans to burn toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the world’s worst industrial accident, despite environmentalists’ objections.

Bharuch Environ Infrastructure, said burning the waste posed no threat.

“We have the best waste disposal facility and it is child’s play for us,” Rajju Shroff, BEIL’s chairman, said today.

A 1984 leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a Bhopal pesticide plant run by a subsidiary of the US chemical company Union Carbide killed at least 10,000 people and affected about 550,000 others.

Survivors have since been fighting to get the site cleaned up, but say their efforts were slowed when Union Carbide was taken over by Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co. in 2001, seven years after Union Carbide sold its interest in the Bhopal plant.

Dow has maintained that it is not responsible for cleaning up the site, and the plant is now under the control of India’s Madhya Pradesh state, which has agreed to pay BEIL €162,168 to dispose of the waste.

FULL story at link.

[madrchsod]

1. i`ve seen pictures of people cleaning that plant up

i wonder if anyone in those pictures are still alive.....