Archives: Incidents
Filter tag: Pollution(clear filter)
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/07/2001 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Major oil spill caused by ruptured pipe in Ogbodu village. | Niger Delta, Nigeria | allAfrica, IRIN | Pollution | |
| 21/08/2011 | (Texaco) (Chevron) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Ferro Corporation) (Unocal) (Exxon Mobil) (BP (Beyond Petroleum)) | San Francisco Judge orders oil companies to clean up fuel additive MTBE contamination caused by leaking storage tanks. | CA, United States | SFGATE | Pollution | |
| 17/10/2001 | (Du Pont) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Monsanto) (Sumitomo Group) (SANDOZ) (Bayer) | Pesticide manufacturers have abandoned a stockpile of highly toxic obsolete pesticides threatening health of residents and livestock, soil, and local water supplies - most dangerous of which originate from Bayer. | Kathmandu, Nepal | Greenpeace | Pollution | |
| 17/10/2001 | Union Carbide (Owned by Dow Chemical) | Pesticide manufacturers have abandoned a stockpile of highly toxic obsolete pesticides threatening health of residents and livestock, soil, and local water supplies - most dangerous of which originate from Bayer. | Kathmandu, Nepal | Greenpeace | Pollution | |
| 09/11/2001 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | At least 3 dead, 17 injured from oil pipeline fire. | Nigeria | Planetark, Reuters | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Pollution | |
| 19/04/2002 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Lyondell Chemical Company) (Access Industries) | Companies found liable for dumping fuel additive MTBE in Tahoe lake. Shell & Lyondell also withheld information over its defects. Settlement - $33 million. | San Francisco, CA, United States | Planetark, Reuters | Fraud, Pollution | |
| 21/11/2002 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | 33,000 barrels of crude oil spilled in river estuary - poisoning animals and vegetation - from Shell boat collision with other vessel. 500 city residents and mayor file lawsuit over insufficient clean up. | Magdalena, Argentina | Planetark, Reuters | Pollution | |
| 20/02/2003 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Explosion at abandoned oil well causes major oil spill polluting farmlands and creeks . | Ogoni, Nigeria | IRIN | Pollution | |
| 27/05/2003 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Oil spill contaminating well water in 1990s related to Shell, whistleblower says. | New Mexico, United States | The Times | Pollution | |
| 31/12/2002 - 01/01/2000 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Transparency pressures force Shell to reveal high greenhouse gas levels in Nigeria - 15.5m, 22.5m and 22m tonnes in 2002, 2001 and 2000 respectively. | Nigeria | The Guardian | Climate Change, Pollution |