TOKYO (AP) — Three former Japanese utility executives were formally charged Monday with negligence in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, becoming the first officials from the company to face a criminal trial. Five court-appointed lawyers indicted Tsunehisa Katsumata, chairman of Tokyo…
Ex-Chesapeake Energy CEO — Indicted One Day, Dies The Next A high-profile oil and gas executive died in a single-vehicle crash Wednesday just hours after a federal grand jury indicted him on bid-rigging charges. The Associated Press reports that Aubrey…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Tens of thousands of Nigerian fishermen and farmers are suing multinational oil giant Shell in two new lawsuits in a British court alleging decades of uncleaned oil spills have destroyed their lives. Law firm Leigh Day…
Russia's Rosneft Reports Large Oil Spill On Sakhalin Island MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) - Top Russian oil producer Rosneft said on Thursday that around 15 tonnes (110 barrels) of oil spilled off from an idled pipeline on the Pacific island…
RIPLEY, N.Y. (AP) — Crews are working to contain a leak on an ethanol tanker that was among 16 cars on a freight train that derailed in far southwestern New York and forced the evacuation of several homes. A spokesman…
SOLBERG® Expands Product Certifications on Foam Concentrates Green Bay, Wisconsin - The Solberg Company, the world’s foremost innovator of firefighting foam concentrates and systems hardware, announced today the company has achieved Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), and Underwriters’ Laboratories of Canada…
Hazelwood Mine Manager Charged With 10 Offences Over 2014 Morwell Fire The company responsible for managing the Hazelwood mine in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley has been charged with 10 offences following a devastating mine fire which burned for 45 days…
Rescuers Hunt For 3 Missing After UK Power Plant Collapse LONDON (AP) — Rescue workers with sniffer dogs are searching through a 30-foot (9-meter) mound of rubble for three workers missing since part of a mothballed British power plant collapsed.…
No Casualties In Fire At Iranian Refinery TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A technical failure in a compressor at a refinery on Iran’s southern island of Lavan started a fire on Wednesday, which was put out rapidly, Lavan Oil Refining Company announced,…
Explosion At Pemex’s Offshore Abkatun Platform In Gulf of Mexico Kills Two Two workers have been killed and eight have been injured after a fire on Mexican oil company Pemex's offshore Abkatun A Permanente processing platform in the Gulf of…
