Did Union Carbide India Limited abandon the Bhopal plant after the gas leak?
No. UCIL, an Indian company, managed and operated the Bhopal plant on a day-to-day basis at the time of the gas leak. After the incident, UCIL completed one of the most single important remediation activities – the transformation and removal of tens of thousands of pounds of MIC from the plant. In the years following the tragedy, the Indian government severely restricted access to the site. Only in the years just prior to the sale was UCIL able to undertake additional clean-up work, spending some $2 million on that effort. Every step of that clean-up work was approved, monitored and directed by the central and state government authorities in India. We understand that, after the sale of UCIL stock in 1994, Eveready Industries continued the clean-up work at the site until 1998, when the state government of Madhya Pradesh took possession, publicly assuming all accountability for the site. In 2004, a Public Interest Litigation was filed and is currently before the State of Madhya Pradesh H
No. UCIL, an Indian company, managed and operated the Bhopal plant on a day-to-day basis at the time of the gas leak. After the incident, UCIL completed one of the most single important remediation activities – the transformation and removal of tens of thousands of pounds of MIC from the plant. In the years following the tragedy, the Indian government severely restricted access to the site. UCIL was only able to undertake additional clean-up work in the years just prior to the sale, and spent some $2 million on that effort. The central and state government authorities in India approved, monitored and directed every step of the clean-up work. We understand that, after the sale of UCIL stock in 1994, Eveready Industries continued the clean-up work at the site until 1998. That year, the Madhya Pradesh State Government, which owns and had been leasing the property to Eveready, took over the facility and assumed all accountability for the site, including the completion of any additional rem
