Archives: Incidents
Filter tag: Negligence(clear filter)
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/07/2011 | Exxon Mobil | 'Yellowstone River' oil spill occurs after pipeline raptures; estimated 1000 barrels of oil leak into river; Oil executives criticised for conflicting accounts of breach and regulators accused of failing to ensure safe operation. | Yellowstone River, MT, United States | The Guardian | Fraud, Negligence, Pollution | |
| 24/03/1989 | Exxon Mobil | 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill occurs after oil tanker is struck by reef; considered the most devastating human-caused environmental disaster; leak of 11 million US galons of oil; immense wildlife death toll; local fishing industry irreparably damaged; Exxon widely criticized for its slow clean-up response - $500 million in punitive damages. | Prince William Sound, Valdez-Cordova, AK, United States | Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, US Environmental Protection Agency | Habitat Extinction, Negligence, Pollution | |
| 07/03/2006 - 02/03/2006 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) (Field co-owned by Exxon Mobil) (Field co-owned by ConocoPhillips) | '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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 12/01/2009 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell's gas flaring practices have not stopped, even past the 2008 December deadline posed by the Nigerian government, NGO says. | Nigeria | Friends of the Earth | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 19/04/2011 | The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (Project carried out by BP (Beyond Petroleum)) (Project carried out by TOTAL) (Project carried out by Marathon Oil Corporation) (Supplier Of Enbridge) (Supplier Of Kinder Morgan) | 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 | |
| 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 |