Bhopal

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Thu Aug 29 07:50:22 PDT 2002


Corporate neglect of safety? It has actually happened before. You don't live too far away from the Tosco plant.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:35:47PM -0700, Brad DeLong wrote:
> >Union Carbide paid the Indian government $470m (about £313m at
> >today's rate of exchange)
> >as part of an out-of-court settlement in 1989. The company accepted
> >moral responsibility
> >for the disaster, but said the plant had been sabotaged by a
> >disgruntled employee.
>
>
> Is there any other theory--other than deliberate sabotage, that
> is--for how the disaster happened?
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>

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