UNION CARBIDE DENIES ROLE IN BHOPAL CONTAMINATION

• The Union Carbide Corporation has denied that new evidence release by plaintiffs who suggested that the company was responsible for creation of contaminated water in area. 
• Plaintiffs said that new evidence they released demonstrated company’s direct role in designing and building the pesticide plant. 
• Also UCC provided critical design for the plant and its waste management system and this design caused the ongoing toxic waste problem in Bhopal.
• The Bhopal gas tragedy considered India’s worst industrial disaster occurred on dec 2 1984 at UCIL pesticide plant and its wake many thousands of people were injured from exposure to methyl isocynate gas and other chemicals and killed several people.