Oil giant BP has shut down its oil platform located 75 kilometres west of the Shetland Islands. In a statement the firm said, a quantity of oil in water was released into the sea from the Clair platform yesterday morning. It was due to a technical issue with the system designed to separate the mixed production […]

A stretch of the River Axe at Mosterton, Dorset is being polluted by an oil leak. Officers at the Environment Agency today said the leak is “small and hard to find” and are appealing for any information regarding the source of pollution. They tried to find the “mysterious” leak on several occasions last year but […]

A New York nuclear plant has had a transformer fire and leaked oil into the Hudson River. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo confirmed the oil discharge at Indian Point but “exactly how much, we don’t know” he said. He revealed the initial fire which broke out over the weekend, had been put out but the heat from the transformer […]

A gas explosion reportedly levelled two buildings in New York City, killing two people. Reports claim the blast, which was sparked by a gas leak in East Harlem, also injured at least 20 people. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said 250 firefighters were at the scene to tackle the blaze and with the necessary […]

Workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have been exposed to radioactive material following a leak. Plant operator Tepco said one of the employees “took off a joint of a pipe by mistake” connected to a water treatment system, which led to toxic water spilling on him and a few others. A total of […]

Shell says an oil spill in Nigeria’s Delta is being contained after a leak was found in one its pipelines. The Nigerian military’s Joint Task Force (JTF) discovered the spill near Adamakiri in Rivers State whilst searching for illegal oil refiners in the area. In a statement the JTF is reported to have said: “An […]

The utility company in charge of the Fukushima nuclear power plant (pictured) has reported another setback in its struggle to stop radioactive water escaping the plant. Toyko Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says around 300 tonnes of radioactive water leaked through an open valve from a storage container into surrounding soil, according to reports. The storage […]

Around 50 litres of crude oil which leaked into the Gulf of Thailand over the weekend have reportedly reached the shore and threaten to tarnish a Thai beauty spot. White-suited workers were yesterday frantically trying to stop too much oil reaching the Koh Samet island after a pipeline carrying crude oil leaked as much as […]

Radioactive water was found leaking at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant earlier today. A statement released by the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), said the contaminated water could have leaked into the ground from one of the plant’s storage tanks. The underground tanks store radioactive water that has been used in the plant’s cooling […]

A leak at an oil platform in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland has forced a pipeline and at least eight platforms to close and affected 27 oil fields, it was confirmed yesterday. The leak at the Cormorant Alpha oil platform (pictured) which is located 232 miles offshore from Peterhead and 94 miles from […]