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Chemical Hub: the Dire Threat

Today’s chemical industry is not what it was a hundred years ago. Today it has sent tentacles into food processing, agricultural trade, manufacturing from seeds to cosmetics, soft drinks and many different items. Besides installation of such a chemical zone involves great hazards at every step. The place where huge quantities of such a dangerous range of chemicals will be produced, will necessarily emit or spit up countless elements which are bound to be hazardous for the environment, for the health and security of the labourers, as also for vast numbers living in the adjacent areas. Even apart from this, there always remains the possibility of some massive accident, the kind of which had been witnessed in Bhopal. In this situation, if the produced goods are again shipped off abroad, why should we at all take this additional risk of danger? We must give serious thought to the matter. Read

By: Abhi Datta Majumdar | 23/07/2007 | National, State, Local