Pollution accidentelle des eaux (+ déchets plastiques)

Roughly 1 million gallons of spent sulfuric acid leaked from a storage tank at a Channelview facility on Saturday morning, some of the chemical spilling into the ship channel, officials say.

On the afternoon of April 3, 2024, a truck carrying 30 tons of sulfuric acid encountered an accident in Ban Phou Xang Kham village in Luang Prabang, resulting in a significant spill in the canal nearby.

Le conteneur a coulé à 900 mètres de profondeur.

The owners of Port Pirie's lead smelter are fined $35,000 for a series of failures that led to 700 litres of "toxic" sulphuric acid leaking from the plant into waterways and mangroves near the town.

Hundreds of workers help contain the spill, but the authorities say there is no danger to local people’s health, according to media reports

La décision du ministre fédéral des Transports de devancer l'interdiction d'utiliser les wagons DOT-111 pour le transport de pétrole brut est bien accueillie à Lac-aux-Sables. Mais il demeure toujours un fond d'inquiétude, puisque des wagons contenant d'autres matières dangereuses continueront de circuler à cet endroit.

Lorries containing pesticides and sulphuric acid plunged into the Tocantins river in the north of the country.

Residents are barred from drinking or bathing in the water, and many of the fish are dead.