About 3000 litres of furnace oil was released on Tuesday night (7) from a tea factory into the Dickoya river, which feeds the Castlereigh hydropower reservoir, causing extensive environmental damage. Hatton police conducting inquiries into the incident said a leaking oil tank in the oil storage of the Wanajara tea factory at Dickoya resulted in this situation.
Water quality in the coastal Zhejiang Province was returning to normal, Chinese officials said Tuesday, more than two days after a collision of two heavy trucks spilled 20 tons of carbolic acid into a river that supplies drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people, including one major city, Hangzhou.
A Hangzhou environmental official, Lao Xinxiang, told news agencies on Monday that the s
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised new concerns about TransCanada Corp's proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline that would bring oil sands crude from Canada to refineries in Texas.
In a letter to the State Department, the EPA cited two small leaks on an existing Keystone line last month as cause for alarm.
A toxic chemical spilled into a river that supplies drinking water to the scenic city of Hangzhou in eastern China, knocking out supplies to more than half a million people and creating a run on bottled water.
A tanker truck carrying 20 tons of carbolic acid overturned late Saturday night.
TransCanada Corp's 591,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone pipeline resumed shipping crude oil, one week after being shut by a leak at a Kansas pumping station, the Calgary-based company said in a statement.
BP said Friday that Moex Offshore, one of its partners in the oil well that leaked into the Gulf of Mexico last year, had agreed to pay $1.1 billion as part of a settlement for any claims related to the oil spill.
Moex, which had a 10 percent stake in the well, is the first company aside from BP to make a payment to cover the costs of the disastrous oil spill, BP said in a statement.
Seaweed collected from the coast near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant and sewage in Tokyo have shown elevated levels of radiation, according to data released by an environmental group and government officials on Friday.
The findings, released separately by Greenpeace and Tokyo government officials, underline the difficulty of containing the water-borne spread of radiation from th
