Games watchdog member quits over Dow deal

26 January 2012, 2:28 pm

LONDON (Reuters) - A member of the body overseeing the environmental and ethical impact of the London Olympics said she quit her post on live television to give victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in India a voice in their fight against U.S. firm Dow Chemical. Dow was chosen by Games organisers to make the hundreds of plastic panels that will decorate the outside of the main stadium in a ...... Read More »

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