Essar Oil fined £500k for Cheshire pollution
by Isabella Kaminski for Ends Report, part of the Gua from on (#S3CT)
Firm pleads guilty to two separate incidents, including five tonnes of oil entering the Manchester ship canal, reports the Ends Report
An oil company has been fined nearly half a million pounds for two pollution incidents in Cheshire.
Essar Oil (UK) Ltd, which is headquartered in India and operates Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, pleading guilty to breaching the conditions of its environmental permit at Chester crown court.
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