Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Environmental researchers and BP attorneys sparred Wednesday over the potential effects of the 2010 Gulf oil spill in a trial aimed at determining whether the oil giant should be made to pay some $13.7 billion in Clean Water Act penalties. A government witness, Dr. Stanley Rice, …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a settlement with threecompanies affiliated with Shell Oil Company to resolve Clean Air Act violations, including selling gasoline and diesel fuel that did not conform to federal standards. The violations resulted in excess emissions of harmful air pollutants from motor vehicles, which …
BP Plc, citing low oil prices, tried to whittle away at $13.7 billion in potential fines under the Clean Water Act on Tuesday as the penalty phase started in its trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP said its fine should be modest as it took extensive …
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 …
US President Barack Obama's administration unveiled rules on Wednesday to slash methane emissions from oil and gas production by up to 45 per cent from 2012 levels by 2025, its latest move to solidify the Democratic president's credentials on climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency and department of interior proposed …
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 …
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 …
Fracking companies will be legally bound to reveal the chemicals used to blast gas out of every well they drill and to better monitor for groundwater pollution, under concessions made by the government in parliament. But the Labour party, which proposed the changes, said many flaws remained and ministers remain …
The oil price crash coupled with growing concerns about global warming will encourage at least one of the major oil companies to turn its back on fossil fuels in the near future, predicts an award-winning scientist and former industry adviser. Dr Jeremy Leggett, who has had consultations on climate change …
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 …
A rift is emerging among investors in some of the world’s biggest energy companies over a global campaign that aims to combat climate change by making fossil fuels as unpopular as tobacco. Over the past seven months, investors including the heirs to the Rockefeller Standard Oil fortune and the board …
(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 …
CALGARY—The government of British Columbia on Tuesday granted key environmental permits to a natural gas export plant backed by Malaysia’s state-owned energy company and two pipelines proposed for shipping gas to terminals on Canada’s Pacific Coast. The move comes ahead of a year-end deadline that Malaysian energy company Petroliam Nasional …
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 …
Shell Petroleum and Development Company has denied that it lied to a Dutch court in The Hague about oil pollution in the Niger Delta. The multinational company, half owned by Nigerian government and with significant Dutch shareholding, said sabotage, not company negligence, caused the spills in 2004 along the Trans-Niger …
More than 100 Colombian small farmers are taking on oil giant BP in the UK high court on Wednesday in one of the largest cases in environmental legal history. The farmers say the British company Equion Energia, formerly BP Exploration (Colombia) Ltd or BPXC, was negligent in the construction of …
Caltex Australia faces a fine of as much as $2 million for an uncontrolled discharge of about 170,000 litres of petrol at its Banksmeadow Terminal at Port Botany in July last year. The NSW Environment Protection Authority has sought to pursue Caltex for a Tier 1 offence, which carries its …
BP is being sued for environmental damage that Colombian farmers allege the oil group caused to their land by building a pipeline. The case, which opens at the High Court this week, is being brought by 73 peasant farmers known as “campesinos”, who are seeking about £18m in compensation from …
