from Sunday Herald, 22 November 2009 The oil giant, BP, has been dropped as a leading example of good safety practice by a government watchdog after fierce complaints from occupational health experts. In recent years BP has been landed with record fines for major accidents, injuries and deaths at oil refineries in Grangemouth in Scotland and Texas in the US. Despite this, the company has been highlighted...
Some oil refineries have been put up for sale. These include Royal Dutch Shell's (RDSa.L) Stanlow in Britain and its Harburg and Heide in Germany as well as Grangemouth in Scotland, currently operated by Ineos. [ID:nLQ224893]
We installed a new Chaplain for Mission to Seafarers in Scotland last night - in Grangemouth. Rev Tim Tunley will spend part of his time working with other Chaplains in Grangemouth and the rest building up a team of people who will do ship-visiting in the ports around the Scottish ...
Exclusive: Watchdog's estimates of reserves inflated says top official Terry Macalister guardian.co.uk , Monday 9 November 2009 21.30 GMT Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland. Photograph: Murdo Macleod The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming...
The Ayrshire A team had a fine 7 - 3 win over Stirlingshire at Prestwick St. Nicholas in the penultimate week of the 2009 West Of Scotland Inter County League championships. Despite losing the opening two ties, Ayrshire bounced back, taking the next six ties before sharing the final two ties on the course. Match details were :- George Robertson (Irvine Ravenspark) lost to Colin Mundie (Falkirk) by...
It's that time of year again, when the most polluting companies and sites in Scotland are unveiled to astonished gasps - astonished in that a 5 year old could probably have guessed the top four! But what's this at number five in the list? A combined heat and power plant? While combining heat and power makes a plant more effective, it doesn't mean that the plant suddenly doesn't pollute. The good news...
A Grangemouth-based company has been fined for breaching health and safety law after a worker was burned by live power cables. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted refinery and petrochemical company Ineos Manufacturing Scotland Ltd for failing to ensure a safe system of work was in place before undertaking excavation work near live electrical cables.
Europe’s oil refining industry is voting with its feet. A swath of less competitive oil refineries are to be sold or closed over the next year. Three plants in Britain are threatened: Shell’s huge facility at Stanlow in Cheshire; the Ineos plant in Grangemouth, Scotland; and the Petroplus Teesside refinery, which will close if a buyer is not found. Shell is talking to buyers — Essar,...
The Ayrshire Under 18 team rounded of their West Of Scotland Inter County league matches for the season with a fine 5 - 3 away win at Grangemouth against Stirlingshire. This win came despite having to conced one match after Andrew Wright (Kilmarnock Barassie) was taken ill and did not travel to the match as a result. The opening four Under 16 ties were shared evenly whilst the three Ayrshire Under...
Seeing the work going on at the new Bathgate and Armadale stations and the rest of the work going on to restore the Bathgate to Airdrie rail link is a wonderful sight. The news that a campaign is afoot to connect people in Grangemouth back to the rail network is additional welcome news. Rail lines still exist from Falkirk to Grangemouth to carry freight so less replacing of infrastructure may be required...
IT CAME down to the final race but England took the spoils last night at the Falkirk Cup in Grangemouth, confirming victory by nine points over Scotland as Sarah Kelly'
Scotland surrendered their three-year hold on the Falkirk Cup at Grangemouth last night, but the contest went down to the final event, and England had to wrestle the trophy away.
I’ve always considered it my civic duty to teach those younger than myself about the dangers of rock ‘n roll excess; a “passing of the torch”, if you will, in a responsible and loving manner, similar to the “schooling” I received during those long heavenly summers at Neverland Ranch. So I continue that tradition today with a lesson in stagecraft; the art of bustin'...
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