Union Carbide Won’t Reopen Bhopal Plant

The Union Carbide Corp. said it will not reopen its pesticide plant in Bhopal, where a gas leak killed more than 2,000 people and injured 200,000 last Dec. 3.

A company statement issued in Bombay on Thursday said the decision came after government officials made it “abundantly clear that permission to restart the factory will not be given.”

The plant in Bhopal leaked more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate in the world’s worst industrial disaster. It was closed after the leak, and government officials have controlled it since then while investigations were conducted.