00s Greenpeace holds actions in a variety of locations to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, which killed thousands of people. The polluted site of the abandoned factory still leaks poisons into the groundwater of local residents. Dow Chemical bought Union Carbide in 2001, but will not accept any responsibility for the clean up of the contaminated site.
image 1 Protest at the Dow chemical plant in Bhopal © Greenpeace / Kadir van Lohuizen image 2 Protest in Australia © Greenpeace / Tim Cole image 3 Action at Dow’s head office in Terneuzen, the Netherlands; Greenpeace protest banner alongside photographer Raghu Rai’s images of the victims of the disaster © Greenpeace / Bas Beentjes images 4 and 5 Memorial in front of Dow Chemical’s European HQ in Horgen, Switzerland © Greenpeace / Ex-Press / David Adair image 6 Greenpeace campaigner Monique Harthoorn and survivors of the Bhopal disaster - Rashida Bi and Ganesg Nochur - return poisonous waste collected from the former Union Carbide plant in Bhopal to its owner, Dow Benelux in the Netherlands © Greenpeace / Bas Beentjes image 7 Emotional plea by Bhopal survivor Nur Jahan when Dow Netherlands refuse to come out and talk about Bhopal’s plight @ Greenpeace / Bas Beentjes image 8 Activists place a memorial statue outside the Dow head office in Terneuzen © Greenpeace / Bas Beentjes
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