Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26/04/2010 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell establishes new gas flare facility generating up to 50 million tons of CO2 and quantities of far more damaging methane, polluting the atmosphere and soil with toxins, and seeding the clouds with acid rain. | Bayelsa, Nigeria | Independent | Climate Change, Injuries & Diseases | |
| 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 | |
| 12/08/2010 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Failure to correct 270 violations after 2005 Texas City explosion -$50.6 million; $30m still contested for 439 "new wilful violations" | Texas City, TX, United States | US Department of Labor, BBC | Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
| 23/03/2005 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Series of explosions at BP Texas City refinery - 15 workers killed, 180 injured; reports identified numerous technical and organisational failings at the refinery and within corporate BP; criminal and civil charges - $373m. | Texas City, TX | CSB | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Occupational Hazard | |
| 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 | |
| 28/09/2010 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Cosan) | Land belonging to Guarani Indian tribe grabbed for companies' biofuel production venture, say Brazilian authorities. | Brazil | Survival International | Land Appropriation | |
| 19/09/2013 | Halliburton | Pleads guilty to destroying 2010 Gulf spill evidence - $200.000 & 3-year probation. | New Orleans, LA, United States | Reuters, US Department of Justice | Fraud | |
| 20/10/2010 | (Tesoro Corporation) (Occidental Petroleum Corporation) (Valero Energy) | Oil companies lobby over California's Proposition 23, which would overturn the 2006 landmark Global Warming Solutions Act. | California, United States | Triple Pundit | Climate Change, Lobbying |