Toxic Free Asia Tour - Call for clean up of Bhopal

TOXIC FREE ASIA TOUR
The SV Rainbow Warrior Tour in Asia

AUDIO UPDATE
From The Rainbow Warrior

The Tour So Far and a call for a
Clean Up of Bhopal

My name is Pete Wilcox and I am captain of the Rainbow Warrior. I have worked on issues involving toxic chemicals and waste for over 25 years. In that time I have seen some of the worst crimes against our environment. And I thought I was beyond being shocked but when I sailed here to India as part of the Toxic Free Asia Tour I found out I was way wrong.

Many of us who live in the so-called developed world think we have cleaned up our rivers and lakes over the past few decades but we haven't. The industry we shut down and the chemicals we banned simply moved to places such as the coastal communities visited by the Rainbow Warrior.

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To Kochi where the pesticide DDT is still manufactured, to Alang where workers break up scrap ships containing asbestos with their bare hands and on average one worker a day dies. To Vapi where a 1/4 million tonnes of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals are dumped into the environment every day.

15 years ago 8000 people were gassed to death and another quarter of a million injured, many blinded for life, when the Union Carbide (UC) factory exploded in Bhopal. Two years before the disaster UC officials from the US visited the plant and found 61 safety and maintainance problems, half of them classified major, but did they take corrective action? No, what they did was they fired four out of the six maintainance workers to cut costs!
WE NEED TO TELL UC TO CLEAN UP THEIR MESS!

Many people in Bhopal are still drinking contaminated water, their wells are poisoned, the ground is toxic and all the victims' families have received is a few hundred dollars each in compensation. Shall we allow the Bhopal legacy of death and injury to continue for years to come?

Make your voice heard by joining us as we storm the UC shareholders discussion groups to demand a clean up of the area and clean drinking water for the residents of Bhopal. Send the web address of this site to the shareholders of UC and ask what are UC and Dow chemicals going to do about one of the worst industrial accidents in history. Ask them would they let their own children drink in Bhopal?

Join me in sending this simple message: NOW UC CLEAN IT UP!

Post a message on the UC board or Dow board

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