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 …
A cancer-causing component of oil has been detected in the drinking water supply of an eastern Montana city downstream from a crude oil spill A cancer-causing component of oil has been detected in the drinking water supply of an eastern Montana city just downstream from a crude oil spill that …
Oil pumped in the Bakken leaked from a pipeline into the Yellowstone River near Glendive in Montana on Saturday. The 12-inch crude line is shut, according to Bill Salvin, an outside spokesman for True Companies, whose Bridger Pipeline LLC operates the Poplar pipe system. As much as 1,200 barrels of …
Five years after the Gulf of Mexico disaster, oil company faces a fine of up to $13.7bn as Judge Carl Barbier begins assessment This Tuesday, close to five years after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig claimed 11 lives and poured millions of barrels of oil into the …
BP Plc (BP/) faces a maximum fine of $13.7 billion after a U.S. judge ruled that the company dumped 3.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 -- about a quarter less than the U.S. had calculated. The government’s 4.2 million barrel estimate of the spill …
The government wants to keep the Sunderbans under surveillance using drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the wake of the colossal damage suffered by the mangrove forest last month due to oil spills from a capsized tanker. The forest department has submitted a proposal to the government to keep the …
Disaster hit an upmarket housing complex on Durban's outskirts, December 23rd 2014, when more than 200 000 litres of diesel poured out of an underground pipeline. The pipeline operated by Transnet, pumps fuel inland from the Durban harbour up to Johannesburg. The Greenpeace Africa local Durban group of volunteers kept …
A city environmental watchdog has lashed out against a giant petrochemical company and ordered it to apologize to the public in a rare case of government lambasting a State-owned corporation. The environmental bureau in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, listed four major pollution incidents by PetroChina's Lanzhou Petrochemical Co since …
Oil giant Shell's agreement to pay £55 million (about N16 billion) to 15,600 fishermen in Bodo community in Ogoniland is not commensurate with the disaster it had visited on the area, an environmental advocacy group has said. The Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, said in a statement Wednesday that …
Oil giant Shell's long-overdue compensation pay out to a community devastated by oil spills in the Niger Delta is an important victory for the victims of corporate negligence, said Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development today. Six years after two oil spills destroyed thousands of …
SINGAPORE—Singapore is scrambling to clean up one of Asia’s largest oil spills in years after two ships collided late last week, amid worries the slick could spread to the nearby Indonesian tourist island of Bintan. A Libyan-registered oil tanker, the Alyarmouk, and a Singaporean cargo ship, the Sinar Kapuas, collided …
WARRI--A rupture in a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, at Otughievwen, Ughelli South Local Government Area, has contaminated the community's Gbogidi River. Chairman of the community, Chief Eric Sajini, said villagers saw bubbles discharging crude into the water at the cracked point, which cuts through the …
United Nations experts said Wednesday they found "limited immediate impact" on the ecosystem of the world's largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh after a major oil spill early in December. Local forestry officials raised the alarm when hundreds of thousands of litres of furnace oil were spilt into the forest's vast …
A Russian Black Sea city declared a state of emergency on Thursday after a burst pipeline spewed oil into the landlocked water body, with stormy weather hampering cleanup efforts. The pipeline near the city of Tuapse burst late on Tuesday, according to ChernomorTransneft, a subsidiary of Russia's main oil transport …
The team of experts from the United Nations arrived at the Sundarbans on Monday to investigate the place of the oil spill. The government yesterday sealed the navigation route through the Sela River in the Sundarbans for all kinds of vessels including small boats to make sure that the visiting …
In the Alberta oil sands region, insufficient knowledge of pre-disturbance reference conditions has undermined the ability of the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) to detect pollution of the Athabasca River, because sampling began three decades after the industry started and the river naturally erodes oil-bearing strata. Here, we apply a …
Apart from the growing concern over the survival of multiple species of flora and fauna, now the fear is heightening about the livelihoods of the poor people living on the forest resources, thanks to ‘gross negligence’ by the authorities to tackle the huge oil-slick in the Sundarbans. “Currently, about 15 …
The Indian Coast Guard has given clean chit to ships earlier held responsible for polluting the sea, after tar balls surfaced on Goan shore during monsoon. "It is not the ships, but the industries located along the coast that are responsible for this pollution, which is adversely affecting the tourism …
(Reuters) - Nigeria's National Assembly said on Wednesday oil major Shell should pay $3.96 billion for a 2011 spill at its offshore Bonga oilfield in the latest assessment of damage to the environment. The non-binding decision comes after years of analysis by various Nigerian state agencies, which have proposed a …
Yenagoa — The devastating oil spill of November 12 at Ikarama in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, from Shell's Okordia-Rumuekpe Trans-Niger Pipeline, has been discovered to have resulted from equipment failure and not sabotage. It was gathered at the weekend that the discovery was made by a Joint …
Ughelli — Oil communities under the aegis of Shoreline Oil Communities in Delta, Bayelsa and Ondo states, have given Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) seven days ultimatum to begin negotiation with over 100 oil shoreline communities affected by the Bonga oil spillage of December 2011, else their facilities would be …
