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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate full-scale evacuation were ever needed, it might well prove to be disastrous. "If everyone got into their cars and tried to leave the town by road, there'd be a massive traffic jam," says Plant Spokesman Henderson. "That's the way the valley's built." Henderson quickly points out, however, that because of the plant's safety features, such an evacuation would be very unlikely. Nonetheless, he says that in response to the growing concern, Union Carbide plans to work with the residents in devising an escape plan...
Still, Institute has no police department, only a volunteer fire department. There are wind socks at the plant to indicate the direction taken by an inadvertent leak, but none in residential areas. And the present plant warning system has left many people utterly confused. Says White: "If there are two blasts from the whistles that means a fire or emergency in the plant. If there are three blasts that means a gas release in the plant. If there are blasts every three seconds that means there's a danger for the people outside the plant...
...done to Union Carbide's image in the 38 countries, from Nigeria to New Zealand, where it has factories and the 130 nations in which it sells products. In West Germany, protesters last week spray-painted the words POISONERS and PIGS on the walls of a Union Carbide plant and dropped two gasoline bombs at the site. One exploded, but there were no injuries...
...Union Carbide, one bitter irony of the tragedy was that the Bhopal plant was at best a marginal operation because of slumping demand for pesticides. Sales of products from the facility dropped 23% last year to $17 million, and the plant was operating at less than one-third of capacity. -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Peter Stoler/New York
...company's most publicized environmental problems have involved pollution. In the late 1960s, environmentalists charged that a Union Carbide iron-alloy plant in Alloy, W Va., was "the smokiest factory in the world." Since then, the company has reduced smokestack emissions at its factories and adopted measures to ensure the safe disposal of chemical wastes...