Major oil spill caused by ruptured pipe in Ogbodu village.
Incident Tag: Pollution
4 major oil firms settle MTBE cleanup suit / S.F. judge presses 4 others to reach similar agreements
San Francisco Judge orders oil companies to clean up fuel additive MTBE contamination caused by leaking storage tanks.
Greenpeace cleans up poisons in Nepal and calls on manufacturers to retrieve world’s obsolete pesticides
Pesticide manufacturers have abandoned a stockpile of highly toxic obsolete pesticides threatening health of residents and livestock, soil, and local water supplies – most dangerous of which originate from Bayer.
Greenpeace cleans up poisons in Nepal and calls on manufacturers to retrieve world’s obsolete pesticides
Pesticide manufacturers have abandoned a stockpile of highly toxic obsolete pesticides threatening health of residents and livestock, soil, and local water supplies – most dangerous of which originate from Bayer.
Three die in oil pipeline fire in southeast Nigeria
At least 3 dead, 17 injured from oil pipeline fire.
California jury finds companies liable for MTBE pollution
Companies found liable for dumping fuel additive MTBE in Tahoe lake. Shell & Lyondell also withheld information over its defects. Settlement – $33 million.
Argentine court orders Shell to clean up spill – mayor
33,000 barrels of crude oil spilled in river estuary – poisoning animals and vegetation – from Shell boat collision with other vessel. 500 city residents and mayor file lawsuit over insufficient clean up.
Fresh spill reported in Ogoniland
Explosion at abandoned oil well causes major oil spill polluting farmlands and creeks .
Buried Shell papers raise questions over lawsuit
Oil spill contaminating well water in 1990s related to Shell, whistleblower says.
Shell opens its books on Nigeria
Transparency pressures force Shell to reveal high greenhouse gas levels in Nigeria – 15.5m, 22.5m and 22m tonnes in 2002, 2001 and 2000 respectively.