A petition that has gathered over 11,000 names world-wide to remove Dow Chemical as a sponsor of the main stadium at the London Olympics is slowly making an impact. That it has taken international petitioning to bring attention to the company that is owner of Union Carbide, the company responsible for the Bhopal disaster, shows how low governance and common sense have reached in Britain where money can buy honour and prestige no matter what your history.
The Bhopal chemical/gas disaster is almost the largest corporate catastrophe to date with prudent estimates of the death toll running to over 20,000 and the environmental legacy is still in existence even now. In addition to the moral and ethical problems associated with the petition it is now emerging that the tendering process for the high profile sponsorship deal that Dow Chemicals won was not administered with fairness and transparency.
Poor show from a world capital.
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