Royal Dutch Shell Cleared of Pollution Charges

Royal Dutch Shell cleared of pollution charges

BRUSSELS, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) — A Netherlands court has cleared Royal Dutch Shell of charges of deliberately polluting the environment in 2004, Dutch news agency ANP reported.

In one case, a Shell plant in the southern Dutch town of Moerdijk had failed to alert the authorities to a chemical leak within the legal time limit because the leak was originally thought to be much smaller.

In two other cases, too many chemicals had allegedly been emitted into the plant’s waste water.

The court in Breda, a city in southern Netherlands, ruled that Shell had not deliberately broken environmental regulations in any of the three cases.

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