The lawsuit claims the three-day blaze at Shell's Deer Park facility caused air pollution and discharged at least 68.7 million gallons of wastewater into the Houston Ship Channel after it was used to extinguish the fire.
Deer Park residents were unsettled by the chemicals released by a large fire that broke out at a Shell refinery along State Highway 225 on Friday.Texas has filed a civil lawsuit against the oil giant Shell, claiming the chemical fire that burned for close to three days at its facility near Houston in May caused environmental damage from airborne contaminants and waste that flowed into nearby waterways.
"The Deer Park chemicals facility remains in a recovery phase as we continue to investigate the cause of the fire and rebuild the damaged portion of the plant," spokesperson Natalie Gunnell said in a statement. The lawsuit states that when the facility caught fire it began "unlawfully emitting mass quantities of air contaminants into the environment" and that "vast quantities of water" used to extinguish the fire resulted in at least 68.7 million gallons of wastewater "unlawfully discharged into the Houston Ship Channel." The water discharges went on for more than 20 days, according to the lawsuit.
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