Why was Bhopal chosen as a location for the pesticide plant?
What is it's central location to India and easy access to transportation infrastructure?
100
In 1985 the UCC established a relief fund for victims of the tragedy that collected more than $120,000 and donated medical equipment to Bhopal, India
What are some of the ways the UCC positively reacted to this tragedy?
100
Approximately how many casualties came within the first two weeks of the gas leak?
What is approximately 2000-2500?
100
Safety precautions that should have helped lessen the impact or possibly prevent the gas leak from happening.
What are having back up plans and potential remediation plans in case of a spill. Have the government have a lot more regulations for such potentially dangerous chemical plants?
100
When MIC is exposed to heat, it degrades to a far more deadly hydrogen cyanide (HCN)
Why the gas leak was so detrimental to the population?
200
Why was UCC ordered to end operations in July 1984?
What is that they were only operating at 1/4th production capacity due to decreased demands of pesticides thanks to widespread crop failure and famine?
200
The passing of environmental protection act on 1986 created the ministery of environment and forests, and increased environmental awareness/activism
What is one way that India's government has responded to this tragedy?
200
Roughly how many people are living daily with effects from the gas leak that include, blindness, extreme shortness of breath, cancers, birth deformities, and early onset of menopause.
What is more than 120,000 people?
200
Potential type of Remediation plan being discussed
What is Bio-Remediation?
200
Definition of Bhopal
What is city of lakes?
300
What caused the explosion and gas leak on December 2nd 1984?
What is the scrubber that neutralizes toxic discharge from methyl isocyanite had been turned off 3 weeks prior. Along with their refridgeration unit that cools the chemical storage tank failed which caused pressure and heat to build up in the storage tank?
300
The elevation of the pesticide plant in regards to the urban city
What is a geological condition that gave way to the flow of groundwater contamination?
300
Pulmonary edema, persistent abdominal pain, diahrea, anxiety states, impaired memory, reasoning, response time and coordination loss, death
What are the early effects of MIC?
300
It is the poisoning that took place in the pesticide plant in Bhopal, India
What is cyanide poisoning?
300
The Hamptons, NY
What is the hiding place of former Chairman Anderson of the pesticide plant when he fled the country after he posted bail?
400
It is possible for this to happen again although it significantly less likely due to the increased regulations on potentialy hazardous chemical plants.
What is if this will happen again?
400
Within hours streets were littered with carcasses of buffalo, cows, dogs, birds and other wildlife
What are some of the environmental impacts to inhabiting wildlife?
400
decreased lung function, ocular problems, chromosomal abnormalities, cancer, death, pregancy loss/infant mortality, impaired motor speed and precision
What are the late effects of MIC?
400
More frequent inspections to make sure everything is up to safety standards and preventing negligence
What is a possibility the plant owners could of done to prevent the severity of the gas leak or possible prevention?
400
Other factors that contributed to the severity of the disaster
What are the geological condition of drought that was taking place, rationing due to drought, 4 hospitals with shortages of beds/physicians, and no mass casualty emergency response system in place?
500
Plant was idiotically built in the middle of a large urban city in India located near many local aquifers and the site was zoned for light industrial/commercial use and was not zoned for hazardous industry
What are some of the reasons that the Bhopal pesticide should not have been constructed where it was?
500
What are some of the safety precautions that the Indian government could have implemented to help the 1984 gas leak.
What is putting more legislation in place that would provide safer living conditions for their citizens?
500
Remediation efforts have not fully cleaning up the hazardous materials, heavy metals and chemical contaminents are still present and washed into the groundwater by India's monsoon rains, where they cantaminate the drinking water supply.
What is how present day Bhopal is still affected by the 1989 gas leak?
500
Have stricter contracts and safety regulations due to the extremely potentially hazardous chemical content of the plant
What could of UCIL done to protect their employees safety and create a safer working environment?
500
Eight previous executives of the pesticide plant were charged with about 2000 in fines and 2 years in jail
What are the punishments for the people responsible?