Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Manslaughter charges were dropped against two former BP well site managers involved in the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil drilling disaster on Wednesday, and one pleaded guilty to an environmental crime, federal prosecutors said. Donald Vidrine pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act and "admitted …
Oil major Royal Dutch Shell was handed a 22,500 pound ($33,919) fine by a local Scottish court on Tuesday for a 2011 oil spill in the North Sea that was the largest in more than a decade. A subsea pipeline leak from Shell's Gannet Alpha field spilled more than 200 …
20 years after the death of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoniland communities still see little benefit from promised oil clean-up, and have no basic services Communities in the oil-rich region of Ogoniland say they feel just as marginalised and in need of work and development as they were before the executions …
Multi-national oil company, Shell, lied when it claimed it had cleaned up heavily polluted areas of the Niger Delta, Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) said in a new report published on Tuesday. The report titled, "Clean it up: Shell's false claims about oil …
Panaji: The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) will review the Goa state oil spill disaster contingency plan in view of the Indian Coast Guard's national oil spill disaster contingency plan which has brought special focus on the tar ball effect. The board will hold a meeting with stakeholders on …
The youths of Ogoni land in Rivers State in south-eastern Nigeria have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of playing politics with the clean-up of Ogoni land, five months after the celebrated announcement of the exercise by the government. In a statement by the President of the National Youth Council of the …
While the earlier plan was to implement BS-V by 2020 and BS-VI by 2024, the Petroleum Ministry sought to skip BS-V and directly implement BS-VI standards by 2020 Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday confirmed that his Ministry still aimed to implement introduction of the cleaner Bharat …
Eight large parent corporations — along with their subsidiaries — shelled out more than $1 billion in penalties related to environmental, health and safety violations since 2010, according to a new report. Another 32 companies ponied up $100 million or more. “It seems like there’s another corporate scandal every other …
The inclusion of indirect land use change (ILUC) emissions in the life-cycle assessment of biofuels in several biofuel policies has led to increased attention to the question of whether there are similar, behavior-induced emissions sources that could, or should, be added when assessing the life-cycle carbon intensity (CI) of oil …
BENGALURU: The country's first city to get electricity also suffers the ignominy of having nearly 33,000 households without power supply. According to the socioeconomic and caste census released recently, 32,803 of the total 23,17,877 households in Bengaluru have no power connection. It means 1.4% of the IT City's households depend …
A U.S. appeals court said BP Plc, which in July reached a $18.7 billion settlement of federal, state and local claims over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, must face one of two proposed class-action lawsuits claiming that the oil company defrauded shareholders over the disaster. The 5th U.S. …
Indigenous protesters in Peru seized oil wells in an Amazonian oil block on Tuesday and said they also planned to halt output in a neighboring concession to press the government to address pollution and compensation demands. Achuar communities shut down 11 wells and took control of an airdrome in oil …
As the pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) leaked near Bauriapalanda, hundreds of villagers, including children and women collected diesel from river water. Sources said there are three marketing depots of the IOCL, Bharat Petroleum Ltd, Hindustan Petroleum Co Ltd (HPCL). The pipeline comes from the oil jetty …
A North Dakota oil well owned by Exxon Mobil subsidiary XTO Energy blew out on Saturday, leaking more than 550 barrels (23,100 gallons) of crude, some of which left the wellpad and seeped into surrounding grasses. The well, located in a rural area 25 miles southeast of Watford City, was …
Sri Lanka's Central Environmental Authority (CEA) today temporarily revoked a suspension order it imposed on the Environmental Protection License (EPL) of the Coca-Cola beverage factory in Biyagama. The CEA last week suspended the EPL granted to the Coca-Cola beverage factory after the factory was found to be responsible for an …
Highly flammable Mazut oil leaked from the cool water unit of Al-the Hamra electricity station in Assiut on Friday, causing 10 water stations to close Minister of Environment Khaled Fahmy announced, Saturday, a four-dimensional plan for tackling the oil leaking from an electricity pipe into the River Nile. Highly flammable …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Shree Sant Dasganu Maharaj Shetkari Singh Vs. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. & Ors. dated 28/08/2015 regarding environmental degradation caused due to percolation of the oil in the vicinity of Village of Akolner (Dist- Ahmednagar).
The coastal communities of Ilaje Local Government in Ondo State, have protested against the composition of the committee set up to compensate affected communities and other persons following the Bonga oil spillage that occurred on December 2011 in the Niger Delta. The compensation was expected to have been paid two …
PANJIM: Following a notice from the Coast Guard (CG) the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has alerted all government agencies over the possibility of oil drums hitting the State’s coast. GSPCB chairman Jose Manuel Noronha, speaking to Herald, said that all State government agencies under the oil spill management …
THE National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has threatened to sanction the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo), for failure to pay $3.6 bilion fine for damages to the livelihood of host communities through its massive oil spill. The oil spill monitoring agency alleged that SNEPCO spilled …
