Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/02/2008 | Sinopec Group | Red sign warning issued by Guangdong Provincial Environment Bureau due to excessive emissions/serious environmental pollution accidents - company placed under strict supervision. | Guangdong, China | China CSR | Climate Change, Pollution | |
| 04/07/2007 | Sinopec Group | Failing to meet waste water treatment requirements according to State Environmental Protection Administration; chronic river pollution in several regions - pollution fine + halting of operations. | China | Reuters | Pollution | |
| 15/09/2006 - 01/09/2006 | Sinopec Group | Oil prospecting activities suspended by Gabonese national parks council due to poor and environmentally damaging methods. | Loango National Park, Ndougou, Ogooue-Maritime, Gabon | Terra Daily | Habitat Extinction | |
| 11/09/2003 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | 2 workers dead in massive gas escape on Brent Bravo platform. Shell admitted breaching three health and safety regulations - £900.000. | North Sea | BBC | Deaths, Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
| 18/01/2003 | (Dow Chemical) (Dole Food Company) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) | Companies that produced and used DBCP pesticide in banana plantations - allegedly causing sterility and other health defects - ordered to pay damages to 450 workers - $489.4 million. | Managua, Nicaragua | The New York Times | Injuries & Diseases | |
| 04/02/2005 | (Chevron) | Protesters at Chevron's facility attacked by Nigerian Joint Task Force; 1 death; 30 injured. | Ugborodo, Delta, Nigeria | Amnesty International | Beatings & Violence, Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Killings | |
| 24/12/2005 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Gas flaring continues, despite Nigerian Federal Court orders to halt. | Nigeria | BBC | Climate Change, Pollution | |
| 25/11/2005 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Impact assessment report suggests Shell downplayed environmental risks of Shakhalin II project, including possibility of Grey Whale extinction and destruction of salmon spawning areas. | Sakhalin, Russia | WWF, The Guardian | Habitat Extinction, Lobbying, Pollution | |
| 25/02/2006 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell ordered to pay damages for pollution; degradation of creeks; spoiling of crops and fishing - $1.5 billion. | Bayelsa, Nigeria | The Guardian | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 12/04/2006 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Court in Lagos orders Shell to stop gas flaring practices. | Nigeria | The Guardian | Climate Change, Pollution |