USA – Texas – Large Chemical Fire Report & Video
HOUSTON, Texas – A massive fire burned for hours Wednesday…
Three Missing After Blowout At China’s Largest Offshore Oilfield
Fire still raging late on Thursday at facility on field…
Mexico – Explosion & Fire Rock PEMEX Refinery- 7 Injured
Fire and explosion inside the Lázaro Cárdenas refinery in Minatitlán, Veracruz…
Indonesia – Massive Blaze At Pertamina Balongan Refinery – VIDEO
Firefighters in Indonesia are working to put out a massive…
Oil Platform Worker Death Off Louisiana Could Have Been Prevented, Federal Agency Finds
Nearly two years after the death of a contractor working…
Pakistan – Two Separate Coal Mine Incidents Kill 13
An explosion at a coal mine near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border…
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 35 Year Anniversary
At 01:23:40 on 26 April 1986, the failure of a routine test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine caused reactor number four to explode, releasing a cloud of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. It was the worst nuclear accident the world had ever seen. Thirty-five years on, the Chernobyl reactor remains a danger, although it has been contained by a multi-billion…
USA – Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Spill
"Even Exxon Valdez pales in comparison to the volume, scale, number of Coast Guard resources, how much time has been devoted to [Deepwater Horizon]—all far exceed any previous event." - Capt. Duke Walker, Federal On-Scene Coordinator, U.S. Coast Guard, 2012 On the evening of April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up at the Macondo well site, 45 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana.…
