News - Risk & Safety
Chevron ordered to inspect Gorgon for cracks
ON 7 August, Chevron was ordered to inspect critical equipment at its Gorgon LNG project in Austr...
Initiative launches first global standard for safer mining waste storage
ON 5 August, the Global Tailings Review (GTR) initiative established the first global standard fo...
Ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut kills at least 135 people
AN explosion at a warehouse storing ammonium nitrate in Beirut, Lebanon, has killed at least 135 ...
Partnership to further develop chemical safety database
THE Pistoia Alliance and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical So...
International group publishes safety guidelines for mining waste storage
AN international group of 142 scientists, community groups and NGOs from 24 countries has publish...
Norilsk Nickel fined US$2.1bn for Arctic oil spill
NORILSK Nickel has been fined US$2.1bn by Russian environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor for the ...
EPA takes a step to exempt ‘forever chemical’ release
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which aims to protect human health and the environm...
Refinery fire in South Africa kills two
A FIRE at Milnerton Refinery in South Africa has killed two employees and injured seven.
Explosion at UK oilseed plant injures three
AN explosion at an oilseed processing plant in the UK has injured three people.
Fire erupts at Indian gas well
A FIRE has broken out at an Indian gas well which has been leaking for weeks.
10 dead after chemicals factory explosion in India
10 workers have now died following an explosion on 3 June, at a chemicals factory in India, repor...
Oil tank collapse likely caused by melting permafrost
AROUND 21,000 t of diesel has leaked into a Russian river near Norilsk, which is inside the Arcti...
Vale ordered to put aside US$1.47bn for dam collapse damages
BRAZILIAN mining company Vale has been ordered by a judge to put aside around R$7.93bn (US$1.47bn...
Italian blast seriously injures two workers
ON 15 May, an explosion at a chemicals plant in an industrial zone in Venice, Italy seriously bur...
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