A joint venture of Shell Oil and Saudi Refining Inc. was fined $350,000 for petroleum storage violations at two dozen New York Shell stations, state environmental officials said Friday. Houston-based Motiva Enterprises will also pay for a wider audit to check compliance at 88 more stations, including 40 on Long Island.
Groundwater Contamination
State fines Shell Oil for storage tank violations
CHEMICAL IS CONTAMINATING WATER IN COMMUNITY NEAR ARMY ARSENAL
…in 1952 Shell Chemical took over. Among the substances produced were aldrin and dieldrin, both thought to cause cancer.
Robert C. Unruh, Associated Press 25 May 1986
For generations, a devil’s brew of waste nerve agents and chemicals has been percolating at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, where rolling plains in the shadow of downtown Denver’s skyscrapers belie the trouble underground.
The arsenal’s grasslands, dotted with old farm buildings, once were an isolated production site for government nerve gas and commercial pesticides and herbicides.
But as the Denver metropolitan area grew to the northeast, houses sprouted just yards from the arsenal’s barbed boundary fence. People began feeling uneasy about their neighbor, which at 17,000 acres is about one-fourth as big as the city.