Hints and tips:
...Wolfspeed and ZF’s planned €2.5bn plant will produce silicon carbide chips, used in electric vehicles, solar cells and industrial hydraulic systems....
...JPMorgan’s cramped 52-floor headquarters, built in 1958 and once occupied by Union Carbide, were an obvious candidate for a reboot....
...This month, a dredge ship and tugboats began depositing sand at Mantoloking, New Jersey, a town temporarily severed by Sandy when the Atlantic spilled into Barnegat Bay....
...Colonel Enrico Deguzman, 48, who co-ordinated Marine Corps deployments in Asia....
...“It’s really peaceful”, he says, aside from the occasional tugboat or engineer surveying and repairing the bridges....
...Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 – more than 16 years after the gas leak – and says attempts to link it to a plant it never owned or operated are “misguided and wrong”....
...The Concordia, being kept afloat by 30 hollow metal boxes, will be accompanied by 14 smaller vessels lead by the Blizzard, a Dutch tugboat....
...kurta, the typical sartorial markers of an Indian social activist, Rachna Dhingra, 38, rides pillion on a motorbike weaving through a Bhopal slum, as she races to meet women affected by the 1984 Union Carbide...
...toasty on the slopes, £245; skiplusonline.co.uk … GoPro Hero3+ Film yourself careering down mountains with this wearable camera, £359.99; gopro.com … Icebug DTS BUGrip These snow boots have 19 tiny carbide-tipped...
...Now, after a long spell under the Union Carbide umbrella and two decades of going it alone, Lincare is being acquired by Linde in a friendly $4.6bn deal. The union has strategic logic....
...Dow believes there is widespread misinformation about its link to Bhopal, which was owned by a subsidiary of Union Carbide when the tragedy occurred in 1984. Dow did not buy Union Carbide until 2001....
...In 2001 the company bought Union Carbide, whose Indian subsidiary was responsible for the accident....
...This sparked opposition from groups such as Amnesty International, because Dow now owns Union Carbide, whose Indian subsidiary was responsible for the gas leak....
...Union Carbide then sold its Indian business to McLeod Russel, a local company, in 1994. The sale proceeds went to the Bhopal Hospital Trust....
...Dow, which is also a global Olympic sponsor, has said legal claims were settled in 1989, before its acquisition of Union Carbide. Locog supports that view....
...A Union Carbide subsidiary owned and operated a pesticide plant that leaked poisonous gas in 1984, causing the deaths of an estimated 15,000 people....
...Please send us the tugboats at once.’’...
...In 1999 Dow Chemical bought Union Carbide – the company that was running the plant in India when a gas leak quickly became one of the world’s worst industrial accidents....
...Nearly 30 years after the Bhopal industrial disaster, one of the world’s worst, the disposal of hazardous chemicals left behind at the Union Carbide factory site is only just getting under way....
...Art for Bhopal Charity Sale Phillips de Pury, October 11 The Bhopal disaster of 1984 left 8,000 people dead when chemicals used for the production of insecticides leaked from the Union Carbide factory....
...India’s Supreme Court is reopening the Bhopal gas disaster case, after a huge public outcry at the lenient sentences recently handed down to the former Indian top management at the blighted Union Carbide...
...that now owns Union Carbide....
...Sir, While one appreciates the zeal with which Barack Obama is lambasting BP, he should be reminded that the US government and Dow Chemical still have outstanding issues over the 1984 Union Carbide/Bhopal...
...They want a heavier charge of “culpable homicide” and demand the extradition of Warren Anderson, the elderly former chairman of the Union Carbide group who lives in the US....
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