Pollution accidentelle des eaux par produits chimiques

La Fête du parc n’aura pas lieu. La Ville de Crépy‐en‐Valois est
contrainte d’annuler cet évènement, en raison d’une pollution
chimique qui secoue le parc de Géresme, indiquent les services municipaux dans un communiqué. Des monticules de mousse se sont développés à l’endroit des petites cascades des rus des Taillandiers et de Bouillant.

Lawyers in Taiwan launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the industrial conglomerate Formosa on Tuesday, on behalf of thousands o

Dozens of dead trout appeared in the Codornices Creek after a garbage truck fire April 3, and members of the community are now looking to officials to investigate the incident, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

 

Triste pêche. Les scientifiques de l’université d’Exter (Royaume-Uni) ont trouvé 103 pesticides dans les échantillons prélevés dans 2

Le navire transportait, entre autres, 720 tonnes d’acide chlorhydrique.

Ten towns in southeast Brazil are suffering river pollution after a dam collapse at a mine nearly three weeks ago that killed 166 people and left 155 missing, presumed dead, according to officials.

Environmental organizations are raising an alarm over the potential health impacts of chemicals spilled Feb. 3 into Sims Bayou near Hobby Airport. An estimated 64,000 gallons of jet fuel escaped from a Southwest Airlines-owned fuel storage facility...

There’s increasing concern over a chemical spill into the Farmington River that happened earlier this month. An accident June 9 at Bradley Airport released

Experts suspect more undeclared chemicals may be in cargo at Laem Chabang Port

Officials rush in to save fish after ANOTHER ammonia spill
It comes a year after 100,000 fish were killed by 
Ecologists battled the round the clock to save hundreds of fish after another ammonia spill threatened to pollute the River Witham.

The costs of a massive fire and chemical spill at a Houston petrochemical facility have begun trickling out, with a local official on Monday estimating emergency response costs at $800,000 for the first two weeks of the disaster alone.

PM Lee raises concerns over pollution and long-term yield of Johor water
By Kenneth Cheng in Kuala Lumpur
Personnel from the Johor Fire and Rescue Department’s Hazmat unit taking water samples along the Kim Kim River in Pasir Gudang, Johor.

The U.S. Gulf Coast’s most important industrial waterway partially reopened on Monday after it was polluted with cancer-causing benzene and toxic runoff from the region’s worst chemical disaster in more than a decade.

KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Removing pollutants from the 1.5km stretch of Sungai Kim Kim where chemicals were illegally dumped earlier this month will cost approximately RM6.5 million (S$2.16 million), Malaysia's environment minister has said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

0sharesBy Lt. Mike Lawrence, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads The 570-foot Singapore-flagged chemical & oil tanker Bow Mariner sank 15 years ago when the ship caught fire and sustained two explosions, resulting in the deaths of 21 out of 27 crewmembers, 45-miles off the coast of Virginia, Feb. 28, 2004. The vessel was transporting …

Le 12 février, l'entreprise chargée de la dépollution d'une ancienne usine à gaz déversait des boues de curage dans le réseau pluvial. Une zone de quelque 500 m2 était alors confinée et des opérations d

Malgré un chantier de dépollution de plusieurs années, aux frais du contribuable, la pollution issue de l'usine Gerber continue de contaminer les sous-sols et les nappes phréatiques du village.