Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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19/04/2011 | The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (Project carried out by BP (Beyond Petroleum)) | RBS accused of investing £1.3 billion - following a £5.6 billion prior investment - in environmentally damaging oil project of tar sands in Canada, also devastating ancestral lands of First Nation tribes. | Alberta, Canada | The Guardian, Financial Times | Climate Change, Negligence, Pollution | |
12/08/2010 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Failure to correct 270 violations after 2005 Texas City explosion -$50.6 million; $30m still contested for 439 "new wilful violations" | Texas City, TX, United States | US Department of Labor, BBC | Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
08/06/2010 - 01/01/2000 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Report finds repeated disregard of safety and environmental rules, risking a serious accident; Executives were not held accountable for failures, and some were promoted despite them. | North America | The Washington Post | Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
16/05/2010 - 06/04/2010 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Illegal emission of harmful air pollutants from refinery, owing to persistent operation of malfunction-associated units. | Texas City, TX, United States | ProPublica | Negligence, Pollution | |
25/04/2006 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Inspection of refinery results in 32 per-instance willful citations - $2.4 million fine | Oregon, Ohio | US Department of Labor | Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
07/03/2006 - 02/03/2006 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | 'Prudhoe Bay' five-day oil spill caused by knowing neglect of corroding pipelines; around one million oil liters leaked. | Prudhoe Bay, AK, United States | BBC | Negligence, Occupational Hazard, Pollution | |
13/12/2004 | Sapref (Co-owned by BP (Beyond Petroleum)) | Toxic gases such as sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxides and benzene coming from refineries poisons air, and cause high incidence of cancer and respiratory ailments among residents, NGO says. | Dourban South Africa | BBC | Injuries & Diseases, Negligence, Pollution | |
31/10/2004 - 01/08/2002 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Ιllegall release of air pollutants caused by failure to adequately inspect, maintain, repair and properly operate thousands of pieces of equipment across refinery - $81 million. | Carson, California, United States | South Coast Air Quality Management District | Negligence, Pollution |