India is threatening a “partial” boycott of the Olympic Games, to be held in London from July 27 to Aug. 12, because of Dow Chemical Company’s presence among its major sponsors. This has given the feud between London and New Delhi an unambiguous political overtone.
The name Dow Chemical has ominous overtones for India. That is because of Union Carbide, which the US-based multinational purchased in 1999, was responsible for the horrific 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes. A Union Carbide production plant leaked 27 tons of the deadly methyl isocyanate gas in Bhopal, central India, killing more than 20,000 people and exposing over half a million to lifelong illnesses and deformities.
That has brought Dow under sustained heat for its £7 million sponsorship of the London Olympic Games stadium wrap and the Olympic Movement in a US$100 million deal. Full story...
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The name Dow Chemical has ominous overtones for India. That is because of Union Carbide, which the US-based multinational purchased in 1999, was responsible for the horrific 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes. A Union Carbide production plant leaked 27 tons of the deadly methyl isocyanate gas in Bhopal, central India, killing more than 20,000 people and exposing over half a million to lifelong illnesses and deformities.
That has brought Dow under sustained heat for its £7 million sponsorship of the London Olympic Games stadium wrap and the Olympic Movement in a US$100 million deal. Full story...
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