'Dow Chemicals should clean up Union Carbide factory site'

US-BHOPAL

Washington, Dec 9 (PTI) An influential US lawmaker has
asked the Dow Chemicals to clean up its factory site in
India's central city of Bhopal and fund necessary medical care
and research studies to treat the victims of the Bhopal Gas
Tragedy.

"Dow should clean up the factory site, which continues
to contaminate the local environment and should go beyond
simply providing compensation to the victims," Frank Pallone,
Democratic Congressman from New Jersey, told the US House of
Representatives.
"Dow should also fund the necessary medical care and
research studies necessary to treat victims and offer them the
chance to live fruitful lives not plagued by chemical
affects," Pallone said in his speech on the occasion of 25th
anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy.
"It is simply unbelievable that Union Carbide refused
to acknowledge which chemicals and gases were leaked for fear
of legal liability. This left doctors to treat patients with
no knowledge of how to proceed or what treatment to use," he
said.
Union Carbide's use of unsafe and untested
technologies led to one of the worst chemical disasters in
world history. Rather than acknowledge the devastation it
created and fully pay for the damages, Union Carbide decided
to walk away, Pallone said.
Last year, Pallone and 15 other Congressmen wrote to
the Prime Minister Singh to express support for the people of
Bhopal and urged him to personally meet with survivor groups
to address the long-standing demands for justice. PTI LKJ
ANU


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