Reported environmental incidents

Incidents due to technical and/or human failure, e. g. spills, blowouts, fires etc., or simply consequences of man’s interfering with nature, e. g. earthquakes, add to the negative environmental impacts of the oil and gas industry.

Not all of them have been reported to the authorities by the responsible companies or made public by the authorities in charge. Quite some incidents had first to be discovered by third party/civil society, and some supposedly went unnoticed for the time being.

USA

• Pennsylvania
  #fileroom [beta version 1.0] holds records of 2,309 complaints from 17 of 40 counties that show much bigger contamination of groundwater than previously reported.
  Public Herald created this online open source #fileroom primarily for the public and journalists to access and contribute to. (via EcoWatch, Feb. 4, 2016)
  Enter #fileroom
• North Dakota
  Reported Environmental Incidents in North Dakota’s Oil Industry (New York Times, NOV. 21, 2014)
  Database containing incidents reported from Jan. 1, 2006, to Oct. 13, 2014.

Europe

• Germany
  List of 100+ incidents, mostly in Northern Germany, on bohrplatz.org.

Note to readers: If you would like to add another source of documented incidents in the oil and gas industry, frack-free.rocks would be happy to host that information.

Last edit: Feb. 13, 2016

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