Talk:Union Carbide/Archives/2015

Biased? If nothing else incomplete.

I appreciate the well known disaster this company is associated with but this articel (about the company), with the exception of the 1st 2 sentences and a very scanty and disconnected "history" section, focuses on nothing else. There HAS to have been more to the company if they were around to build the Carbide & Carbon Building. 68.39.174.238 21:42, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Why do you 'appreciate' the disaster? I can't think of any reason to appreciate a disaster in which thousands of people were killed and many thousands more still continue to suffer - unless you appreciate that Union Carbide had to make maximum profits at any cost - which actually IS something more to the company. Maybe we SHOULD mention this as well... — Preceding

unsigned comment added by Khaydock (talk • contribs) 05:43, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

As one who can read the english language, let me help out here. The writer 68.39.174.238 appreciates (that is, fully understands and gives due consideration to) the fact that the company, Union Carbide, is associated with the well known disaster. The government of India allowed Union Carbide to build the plant, but in view of their problem with unemployment, required that Union Carbide replace many of the planned automated feedback systems with dials, readouts and manual controls, thereby providing jobs for relatively unskilled labor: if the needle on this dial drops below this line, turn this valve to the right, if it goes above the other line, turn the valve to the left. It was early days, and India was not yet the industrial power we see today. Unfortunately, when you put an unskilled person at the controls of a complex system, you sometimes get unexpected consequences. If the plant had been built as originally designed by Union Carbide, the disaster would never have occurred. And, no I have never had any contact with Union Carbide, but I did work as a systems engineer for quite a few years, and this history is fairly well known in the community. MIKPWN MHN (talk) 16:01, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

I would like to know more about Union Carbide - the company it bought - Bakelite and the health problems of their workers/former workers as a result of exposure to these chemicals —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.61.222.98 (talk) 13:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree with 68.39.174.238. The article is one paragraph listing the positive developments of the company, in no detail, and four paragraphs on various environmental disasters the company was responsible for. That strikes me as grossly unbalanced. No, I don't own any Union Carbide stock. --Yaush (talk) 04:41, 12 February 2014 (UTC)