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---- Dow shareholders question Bhopal memo Amnesty International has called for a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation of Dow Chemical Co. after the disclosure of an internal company memo exposing Dow's effort to absolve its liabilities from the deadly 1984 Union Carbide pesticide plant explosion in Bhopal, India that has killed more than 22,000 people to date. Dow purchased Union Carbide in 2001. In a November 8, 2006 letter, Dow officials suggested that India create an "appropriate investment climate" by dropping its demand that Dow provide a $22 million deposit towards the Bhopal cleanup. <> Sanford Lewis, an attorney representing Amnesty and the New York City Pension Funds, a major Dow shareholder, accused the company of "attempting to bypass the Indian courts... by pressuring the executive branch." Amnesty's Amy O'Meara suggests "Dow's refusal to address the human rights of the Bhopal survivors may be having a serious, but undisclosed, financial impact" and notes that the "apparent attempts to avoid liability coincide with multiple rumors about a possible Dow buy-out." PAN and other members of the Dow Accountability Network are supporting Amnesty's resolution on responsibility for Bhopal to be presented at Dow's annual shareholders meeting on May 11. http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=ENGUSA20070412001 http://www.amnestyusa.org/business/AmnestyDowApril12.pdf Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) 49 Powell St., Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA Phone: (415) 981-1771 Fax: (415) 981-1991 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.panna.org _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
