Esso fined £10k for avoidable oil spill
International oil company Esso has been fined £10,000 after inspection and maintenance failures resulted in hundreds of gallons of oil leaking into a protected estuary.
Southampton Magistrates Court was told that Esso had not met the high maintenance standards required at its Fawley refinery in Hampshire, where a corroded pipe released 400 gallons of oil into the SouContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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