How BP shrugs off negative reviews

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0nnEarly June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light. nJust to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.nnTo compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:nn- – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;n- – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant sitenn- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident n- – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;nn- – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;n- – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;n- – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…nnIs this Ethical?nBUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?nRobert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations. nDoes this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable? nnShould David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.nnUnion Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary. nBut does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?nnQUESTIONnIf BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?nnNo surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.nnMaybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback. u00a0

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster’s sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP’s Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– – u00a030,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family’s son died or u20ac440 if one’s husband died in the accident
– – u00a0$470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– – u00a02 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – u20ac1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant’s operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company’s board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen’s livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?

@Chris_McGeehan thanks for the BP oil spill feedback.  

Early June 10 a court verdict brought the Bhopal disaster's sorry history sharply to light.
Just to refresh our memory, the deadly poison gas cloud that erupted when water accidentally entered a methyl isocyanate storage tank 26 years ago caused thousands of people to die.

To compare that disaster with BP's Gulf oil spill, here are some statistics I found:

– –  30,000 – maximum estimate of deaths within 8km radius of Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal;
– – 325 tonnes of toxic material said to lie at plant site

– – €1,765 or $2,100 compensation if a family's son died or €440 if one's husband died in the accident
– –  $470m compensation in 1989 paid by Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Connecticut – now part of US national Dow Chemical;

– –  2 years jail terms handed to 7 remaining Union Carbide managers (i.e. one died) – but still years away from imprisonment as they are expected to appeal;
– – €1,765 or $2,100 fines handed to Union Carbide managers;
– – poisons continue to leach into the groundwater until this day…

Is this Ethical?
BUSINESS ETHICS – QUO VADIS?
Robert Blake, a top US state department official urged India not to allow Bhopal to damage warming US-India relations.
Does this mean Dow Chemical should not be held accountable?

Should David Cameron point out to Barack Obama that holding BP responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster might damage US – UK relations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Union Carbide has stated that its executives were not responsible for the plant's operation only those of its Indian subsidiary.
But does the buck not stop with the company's board? Is the board not ultimately responsible for letting local management be as sloppy as they apparently were in Bhopal, in order to to meet profit targets set by top management and the board in the US?

QUESTION
If BP is held accountable in the US, why not US companies when they are responsible for a disaster like the one in Bhopal?

No surprise that the recent court ruling and comments by US officials like Robert Blake (see above) heightens the sense of betrayal for community members.

Maybe I am naive and this is just a political reality. Meaning, the worth of a US citizen's livelihood or property, etc is much more than people living in other countries such as UK, India and so forth?