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7 results found for '"Chemical industry"' in Keywords.
Plastics chairman on rising prices (1979)
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- Interview
Unidentified Chairman of the British Plastics (Manufacturers?) Federation on plastics becoming more expensive with the rise in oil prices. Arguing it may become more economical to use chemicals from natural...
Oil and gas shortages to hit chemical industry (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Ted (Edward) Garrett MP, Chairman of an all party group on the chemical industry, who warns shortages of North Sea oil and gas could become critical. Male interviewer not identified. Sound is...
Greenpeace chemical dumping blockade (1980)
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- Interview
Interview with a spokesman (not identified) for the environmental group Greenpeace, on a blockade against the dumping of poisonous chemicals in the North Sea by the West German company Bayer. Male...
Margaret Thatcher visits ICI factory (1980)
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- Speech
Speech by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a visit to the opening of a new ICI plant at Runcorn in Cheshire on 06/06/80 where she defends the Government’s economic and industrial policy.
ICI profits (1983)
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- Interview
Interview with ICI Finance Director Alan Clements after the announcement of a big increase in company profits. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Douglas Moffitt).
1980s news clips - Bhopal disaster (1989)
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- News report
Suresh Joshi reports on the Bhopal industrial disaster in India, in which a Union Carbide pesticide plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas killing approximately 3,800 people instantly (03/12/84)....
Ten years since Union Carbide disaster (1994)
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- Interview
Ten thousand protesters today converge on the former Union Carbide chemical plant in the Indian city of Bhopal to commemorate the 6500 people killed during a leak ten years ago. David Bergman, an...