Posts on ‘August 21st, 2015’
Oil suffers longest weekly losing streak since 1986
OIL BELOW $40
Shell will despoil the Arctic. But Barack Obama is the real villain here
Clinton nailed Obama this week: “The Arctic is a unique treasure. Given what we know, it’s not worth the risk of drilling,” she wrote.
Others put it more strongly: “It’s perplexing and depressing to hear President Obama say he wants to fix climate change but then approve Arctic drilling.
Fire at Shell’s Pulau Bukom plant leaves 6 injured, including 3 in critical condition
This is not the first time a fire broke out at Pulau Bukom. In September 2011, more than 100 firefighters helped to put out a fire that raged for 32 hours at the Pulau Bukom refinery. Shell was fined $80,000 the following year for lapses in workplace safety that led to the fire.
Lim Yi Han: 21 August 2015
SINGAPORE – A fire broke out at oil giant Shell’s manufacturing site on Pulau Bukom on Friday evening, leaving six workers with burn injuries.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they received a call at around 6.15pm about the fire from the Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site.
Upon its arrival, the fire had already been extinguished by Shell’s emergency response team.
The six victims were sent to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH).
Three of them are in a “critical condition”, said a SGH spokesman. One is in a stable condition, and two others were discharged after receiving outpatient treatment.