Archives: Incidents
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| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23/09/2012 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | After four year delay, Shell still has not cleaned up pollution caused by its two massive oil spills in two populated areas. | Bodo & Gokana, Nigeria | The Guardian | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 30/05/2010 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | 40-year old corroded pipeline leaks oil for several months, polluting forests, farmland, fishponds and drinking water. | Nigeria | The Guardian | Pollution | |
| 01/01/1970 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell ordered by Nigerian High court to pay for oil spill - N15.4 billion. | Rivers State, Nigeria | Vanguard | Pollution | |
| 11/12/2005 | (TOTAL) (British Pipeline Agency) (BP (Beyond Petroleum)) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (TAV Engineering) (Motherwell Control Systems) (Hertfordshire Oil Storage Ltd) | Massive explosion at oil depot measuring 2.4 on the Richter scale injures 43 people, destroys homes and businesses and with yet unknown environmental damage that could last for decades. Firms involved fined almost 10£ million. | Buncefield Terminal, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom | BBC | Injuries & Diseases, Occupational Hazard, Pollution | |
| 31/12/2010 - 01/01/2009 | (TOTAL) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (BP (Beyond Petroleum)) (Maersk) (Talisman Energy) | Documents reveal serious spills of oil and gas occurring at the rate of one a week from 5 oil companies operating in the North Sea. | North Sea | The Guardian | Pollution | |
| 04/08/2011 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Two-year UN environmental study finds massive environmental disaster in Nigeria related to oil industry dating back 50 years; extensive pollution of soil and groundwater contaminating community wells; severe damage to vegetation; wetlands and creeks are coated with floating oil destroying the fish habitat; and air polluted with benzene detected in all air samples. 'Community members at Ogale are drinking water from wells that is contaminated with benzene, a known carcinogen, at levels over 900 times above the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline.' | Ogoni, Nigeria | United Nations Environmental Programme | Injuries & Diseases, Pollution | |
| 21/06/2011 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (BP (Beyond Petroleum)) | Residents of an Illinois town file toxic tort lawsuit against oil companies for groundwater contamination. | Roxana, Illinois, United States | About Lawsuits | Pollution | |
| 23/04/2012 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Amnesty International exposes Shell's inaccurate reporting of massive 72-day Niger Delta oil spill. | Niger Delta | Amnesty International, CEHRD | Fraud, Pollution | |
| 20/12/2011 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell faces fine over estimated 40,000 barrel oil spill polluting 950 square km of water surface-$5 billion. | Bonga, Nigeria | Reuters, RT | Pollution | |
| 15/08/2012 | (Apache Corporation) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Chesapeake Energy) (Exxon Mobil) (ConocoPhillips) (Marathon Oil Corporation) | Energy Companies failure to disclose wells obscures fracking environmental hazards. | United States | Bloomberg | Pollution |