Greenpeace confronts Dow Chemical with poison from corporate crime scene Bhopal survivors call for justice Amsterdam, 7th January 2003: At midday today, Greenpeace and survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, started returning poisonous waste collected from the disaster scene to its rightful owner, Dow Chemical. The waste was abandoned in Bhopal in 1984 and has been poisoning people there ever since. Ten Greenpeace activists, including John Passacantando, Executive Director of Greenpeace in the U.S. and Rashida Bi, leader of the Bhopal Gas Victim Women's Union, all constituents of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (1), unloaded 250 kg of the waste safely contained in seven barrels (2) from the Greenpeace ship 'Arctic Sunrise' and started delivering it to Dow's largest European operation, Dow Benelux in the Netherlands. Three activists abseiled down the building and hung eight huge photographs depicting Dow's corporate crime in Bhopal Matilda Bradshaw Greenpeace International Office: + 31 205249545 Mobile: + 31 6535 04701 Fax: + 31 205236212 email: care of mbradshaw@ams.greenpeace.org *************************************************************** Distributed by the World Environmental Journalists Egroup(WEJEG) List Owner:Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum(SLEJF) PO.Box 26,434/3-Sri Jayawardenapura,Sri Lanka. phone(+94-1)873131/827810Fax(+941)883187 mailto:slejf@sri.lanka.net Archive