A mining company has been ordered to pay $45,000 in penalties following a zinc and lead spill from one of its northwest Queensland pipelines in 2009. MMG Century Limited pleaded guilty to one charge of unlawfully causing material environmental harm in the Mount Isa Magistrates Court, the stat...

The U.S. government must consider the harsh conditions of the Arctic and lack of containment infrastructure as it weighs Royal Dutch Shell's plans to drill off the Alaska coast, a report said on Friday. The Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, said in its rep...

Wild Well Control, a company that helped tackle the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Kuwait's raging oil fires, have joined efforts to avert disaster at a leaking gas platform off Scotland, rig operator Total said. Firefighters and engineers from the Houston-based company are experts at disas...

Enbridge Inc said on Saturday it shut down an oil pipeline for an undetermined period on its Canada-U.S. export system after a fire ignited at a pumping station in Illinois. Enbridge said it was forced to shut down the 318,000 barrel-a-day pipeline between Superior, Wisconsin, and Griffith, I...

The NSW Opposition says the state is unprepared for a major oil spill and has proposed a plan to better protect the environment and wildlife in case it happens. Opposition environment spokesman Luke Foley on Monday said NSW would be unable to deal with catastrophic oil spills like those in th...