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| '''Global Chemicals''' was a company which developed a new technique for refining [[oil]] in the [[1970s]]. After receiving approval from the Ministry of Ecology, an oil refinery headed by Director [[Stevens]] was opened in [[Llanfairfach]], [[Wales]]. Secretly, not only was Global Chemicals dumping lethal toxic waste into the abandoned coal mine, creating [[giant maggot]]s, but Stevens had been taken over by the meglomaniacal supercomputer [[BOSS]]. | | '''Panorama Chemicals''' was a corporation in the [[22nd century]]. An [[America]]n subsidiary of the company filled in the [[Carlsbad Caverns]] with [[plastic]] waste in [[2140]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') |
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| Global Chemicals had friends in the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom]]; in order to intimidate [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] into backing down, Stevens called up the [[Minister of Ecology]], who forbade any investigation of the company. When the Brigadier protested, the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] ([[Jeremy Thorpe]]) backed up Global Chemicals as well.
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| The [[Third Doctor]] and [[UNIT]] investigated the company's activities and the refinery was shut down. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| Global Chemicals was renamed "Panorama Chemicals" in the [[Doctor Who and the Green Death|novelisation]] after a real company by that name objected.
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Revision as of 02:10, 18 February 2015
