After the 1981 death, local reporter Rajkumar Keswani began to document the potential for deadly catastrophe in Bhopal in a series of published reports, the first titled "Save Please, Save This City," the second "Bhopal sitting on the brink of a volcano."
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By dawn, thousands were dead. Under-trained doctors, initially told by plant management that the gas was phosphene and later told only the name of the poison and no other details, struggled to care for the thousands overwhelming local healthcare systems.pic.twitter.com/qMR3RKXWW2
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In the gruesome wake of the accident, Union Carbide officials shut down and abandoned the plant, leaving behind thousands of tons of toxic waste-- some buried, some in vast evaporation ponds, some openly exposed to the elements.pic.twitter.com/eYtgV76noT
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From http://Bhopal.org : "After the catastrophic gas leak, the factory was locked up and left to rot, with all the chemicals and wastes still there. Union Carbide left the factory and its surrounds without cleaning them..."
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Every year, monsoon rains overflowed "the huge ‘ponds’, the toxins seeped down through the soil, and filtered into underground channels and pools. Wells drawn from these ground water pools serve around 50,000 people living in eighteen townships."pic.twitter.com/HLfhLG7CXe
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The Bhopal disaster caused an estimated total of $4.1 billion in distress and damages. Union Carbide paid out a total of $470 million (approximately 0.1% of that estimate), a figure based in part on a valuation of human life at the $3.75/day salary they paid Bhopal workers.pic.twitter.com/UsBVaLApIC
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The Union Carbide settlement was so shockingly low that company stock prices shot up at its announcement. Theen-CEO Warren Anderson was charged with manslaughter in India, but released from custody and permitted to return to the US before trial. He never returned.pic.twitter.com/k3IFCgiwWl
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DOW Chemical acquired Union Carbide in 2001. The United States declined to extradite Anderson. IN 2014, he died peacefully in a nursing home at the age of 94, still a fugitive from Indian justice.pic.twitter.com/GPvbnB1z2S
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So what does this tragedy have to do with the PES refinery in Philadelphia? A lot. Thread part 2 starts here.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1142570442458316805 …
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(Correction: I put the wrong number of zeroes into my calculator, so this is still a travesty, but not quite as insanely as I first wrote. Thank you for the gentle correction,
@daveparke)pic.twitter.com/D8PMvmBXdQ
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