India 's supreme court in 1989 ordered union carbide , which owned just over half of its indian offshoot at the time of the bhopal tragedy , to pay $ 470m in compensation .
Dow had no involvement in running the bhopal plant and agreed to buy union carbide a decade after that company had settled its litigation and five years after it had sold its indian business , he said .
It urged the government to step up its efforts to extradite warren anderson , now a retired 88-year-old living somewhere in america , who was boss of union carbide , the american firm that owned the chemical-pesticides factory that caused the disaster .
He was one of nine children of one of chennai 's leading judges and sanskrit scholars , and spent a formative period in his youth working for union carbide , an american chemicals firm which later became infamous for the deadliest industrial accident in history , at a factory in india .
Crime site ...... the wreckage of the union carbide pesticide plant continues to leach deadly chemicals into the water supply .
凶案现场联合碳化物公司农药厂的废墟继续向水源排放致命化合物。
By the glow of a small carbide lamp one could distinguish a dozen human figures gathered around three or four tables .
借着电石灯的光亮,可以看到十几个人体聚集在三四张桌子的周围。
A court convicted seven former senior employees of union carbide 's indian subsidiary of " death by negligence " for their roles in the 1984 leak of toxic gas that killed an estimated 15000 people in the world 's worst industrial disaster .
The research triangle in north carolina was a successful exponent of the anchor-firm model , recruiting big companies such as ibm , alcatel and union carbide which then either spawned or attracted lots of smaller operators .