Bhopal Case: Jairam 'Sorry' Govt Smuggled Union Carbide Waste

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 7, July 2010

 

Apologising for the government's action, Union minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh admitted that the lethal waste was secretly smuggled out during the night hours from the Carbide factory and shifted it to a TSD (treatment, storage and disposal) incinerator facility in Pithampur, Dhar district. "I admit as minister that it was wrong to have brought those 40 tonnes of waste to Pithampur." Read the full report here.

 

Source: Suchandana Gupta, TNN, Bhopal

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