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Correcting… for Dow Chemical

Dow has a lot of skeletons in the closet. There's Agent Orange, napalm, DDT, Dursban, Rocky Flats... But Dow wasn't the uncontested world leader in industrial accidents until they bought Union Carbide in 2001, and with it the legacy of the Bhopal catastrophe. Dow claims no liability for the Bhopal disaster, but the victims aren't buying it, and have continued to fight Dow just as hard as they fought Union Carbide.
  • It's different in here
    Dow Annual Meeting
    Politely requesting remedy
    May, 2005 | Dow wasn't taking any chances at this year's Annual General Meeting (AGM). For the first time in Dow's existence, each and every shareholder was being searched on entry. A phalanx of guards had been hired, and a battery of eight metal detectors were set up at the entrance to the Midland, Michigan Center for the Arts. Every one of the two thousand shareholders who would show up had to empty pockets, check cellphones, get wanded. Old ladies had to let guards rifle through their purses.
  • Dow Acceptable Risk Skeleton
    Acceptable Risk
    Dow Discovers a Golden Skeleton!
    April, 2005 | On April 28, 2005, at a London banking conference to which they had accidentally been invited because of their satirical website, "Dow representative" "Erastus Hamm" unveiled "Acceptable Risk," a Dow industry standard for determining how many deaths are acceptable when achieving large profits.
  • BBC Bhopal Appearance
    Bhopal on BBC
    Dow Does the Right Thing
    November, 2004 | Jude announces a radical new direction for Dow, where they take full responsibility for the 1984 Bhopal India disaster.
  • Dow Does the Wrong Thing
    December, 2002 | On Dec. 3, 2002, the eighteenth anniversary of the Union Carbide (i.e. Dow) disaster at Bhopal, a press release was sent out by Dow-Chemical.com, telling Dow's story more honestly than Dow ever does.