Carolyn Harding with Rachna Dhingra, environmental and social activist who works in Bhopal, India, with the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide India Limited Corporation’s poisonous gas leak- killing thousands of people.
Rachna Dhingra works on the issues of medical care, research, social support, economic needs, assessment and cleanup of toxic waste, legal claims for appropriate compensation and corporate accountability of Union Carbide & Dow Chemical.
She works with a group called Bhopal Group for Information and Action and also with International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. In 2003 she quit her job in Michigan, US and moved to Bhopal to work with those exposed to poisons of Union Carbide & Dow Chemical.
On December December 3, 1984, in the middle of the night, 40* tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) and other poisons leaked from Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary plant in Bhopal, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Talk about what happened that night.
www.bhopal.net
Rachnya@gmail.com
* in the Guardian article of June 14, 2023, they cited 27 tons of MIC were leaked.
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