UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times, documents reveal
The footage showed wading birds - including the red-listed Dunlin - in the area."Where we have chemical pollution the impact isn't just localised. But going further than that, it shouldn't be happening in the first place.
- ▪The footage showed wading birds - including the red-listed Dunlin - in the area."Where we have chemical pollution the impact isn't just localised.
- ▪But going further than that, it shouldn't be happening in the first place.
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UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times, documents revealImage source, Arthur Passant/Getty ImagesImage caption, Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire is the second largest in the UKByEsme StallardSenior climate and science reporterPublished4 minutes agoOne of the UK's biggest oil refineries spilled pollution into local rivers and the Mersey Estuary on dozens of occasions in 2023 and 2024, documents shared exclusively with the BBC suggest.EET Fuels, formerly known as Essar, which runs Stanlow refinery, pleaded guilty this year to 12 charges of breaching environmental law between 2018 and 2020.But documents obtained by investigative journalists from SourceMaterial describe other breaches from the refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, with toxic chemicals and oil regularly…
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