What has been the response of Dow Chemical?
SARANGI: Initially, they didn’t want to speak with us. We had a demonstration in February 2001 in Bombay. After Union Carbide sold off its shares and went off, Dow moved in. Dow has two subsidiaries and two joint ventures in India. The demonstration was in front of a facility in Bombay. They agreed to meet after that. They first took the position that they could not be held responsible for a factory they did not run in a place they did not visit. Finally, they agreed to talk on things. After a year of negotiations, we found that they were taking advantage of the fact that we were talking with them. They were using it as a public relations campaign, but actually not delivering anything. We asked that they give us things that don’t even cost money. Give us the results of the research on the effects of methyl isocyanate on living systems. We knew about these studies, but we couldn’t get them. They took two or three months to understand the question, and then they sent us information from
