Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 31/12/1995 - 01/01/1993 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Illegal discharge of waste oil, paint thinner and other toxic and hazardous substances by injecting them down oil wells. BP Exploration Alaska failed to report the illegal injections when it learned of the conduct; BP pleads guilty to criminal charges - $22 million. | Endicott Island, North Slope, AK, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Fraud, 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 | |
| 10/11/1995 - 01/05/1993 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Confidential internal documents reveal that Shell provided logistical support to Nigerian police and military, aided security sweeps, and enlisted the assistance of Nigeria's brutal military government to deal with protesters fueling death and violence. | Ogoni, Rivers, Nigeria | Independent | Beatings & Violence, Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Lobbying, Oppressive Regimes | |
| 29/06/2009 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell accused of lobbying in Brussels against improvements on EU’s Emission Trading System, and threatened to move refineries out of Europe, if made to pay for emissions. Internal documents also reveal Shell's knowledge of the environmental severity of gas flaring practices, but chose not to stop their use. | European Union | Friends of the Earth, Oil Change International, PLATFORM | Lobbying, Pollution | |
| 30/06/2009 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Few, if any, adequate protective measures have been taken by Shell resulting to environmental pollution, and in several cases devastating consequences for human rights says Amnesty; not properly maintained pipelines; release of waste in the environment; failure to remediate and clean-up oil contaminated land and water; devastating consequences for human rights. | Niger Delta, Nigeria | Amnesty International, (2) | Injuries & Diseases, Pollution | |
| 23/08/2009 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (BP (Beyond Petroleum)) (Project funded by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group) | Cree aboriginals protest over tar sand project - destroying ancient boreal forest; spreading open-pit mining across local tribes' territories; contaminating their food and water with toxins; producing heavy CO2 emissions; disrupting local wildlife and threatening their way of life. | Alberta, Canada | The Guardian | Climate Change, Habitat Extinction, Pollution | |
| 16/11/2009 | The Royal Bank of Scotland Group | RBS lending to environmentally damaging project of tar sands which pollutes Canadian aboriginals' land sparks protest. | Western Canada | Financial Times | 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 | |
| 16/02/2010 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Frequent oil spills, poorly executed clean-ups and gas flaring cause severe pollution of air, water and land, as well as disastrous impacts on health and livelihoods of locals, study shows. | Niger Delta, Nigeria | Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility | Pollution |