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100 years of
non-renewable energy disasters
and counting
Amoco Cadiz
Occured:
15/03/78
Culprit:
British Petroleum
Atlantic Empress Oil Spill
Occured:
19/07/79
Culprit:
Mobil Oil
BP Oil Spill
Occured:
18/04/10
Culprit:
British Petroleum
Chernobyl Disaster
Occured:
25/04/86
Culprit:
USSR
Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion
Occured:
18/10/44
Culprit:
Dominion East Ohio
Ecuador Vs. Chevron-Texaco
Occured:
01/01/72
Culprit:
Chevron-Texaco
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Occured:
22/03/89
Culprit:
Exxon Shipping Company
Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants Accident
Occured:
11/03/11
Culprit:
Tokyo Electric Power Company
Greenpoint Oil Spill
Occured:
05/10/50
Culprit:
Exxon Mobil
Gulf War Oil Disaster
Occured:
27/01/91
Culprit:
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Ixtoc Oil Spill
Occured:
01/06/79
Culprit:
Pemex
Kalamazoo Oil Spill
Occured:
26/07/10
Culprit:
Enbridge Energy
Lakeview Gusher
Occured:
14/03/10
Culprit:
Union Oil
Martin County Sludge Spill
Occured:
10/10/00
Culprit:
Massey Energy Company
Nigeria's Oil
Occured:
18/10/98
Culprit:
Royal Dutch Shell & Chevron
North Sea Gas Leak
Occured:
25/03/12
Culprit:
Total SA
Porter Ranch Gas Leak
Occured:
23/10/15
Culprit:
SoCalGas
Rena Oil Spill
Occured:
05/10/11
Culprit:
Costamare Inc.
Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Occured:
28/01/69
Culprit:
Union Oil
Tennessee Ash Flood
Occured:
20/12/08
Culprit:
Kingston Fossil Plant
Three Mile Island
Occured:
25/03/79
Culprit:
Met Ed
Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
Occured:
05/04/10
Culprit:
Massey Energy Company
Windscale Fire Nuclear Disaster
Occured:
10/10/57
Culprit:
British Government