{"id":498054,"date":"2026-03-27T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498054\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:58:38","slug":"stanlow-oil-refinery-breaks-environmental-rules-nearly-500-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498054\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanlow oil refinery breaks environmental rules nearly 500 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A company which owns an oil refinery in Cheshire has admitted breaching environmental regulations nearly 500 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four of the offences included discharging higher-than-permitted levels of cyanide into the Manchester Ship Canal, a nearby river and a local brook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The offences were committed between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essar, which runs the Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, has apologised for breaking the rules 491 times over a four-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It pleaded guilty to 12 charges brought by the Environment Agency at Chester Magistrates&#8217; Court. The case will be heard again on 14 July for case management at Warrington Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A company which owns an oil refinery in Cheshire has admitted breaching environmental regulations nearly 500 times. Four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-498054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}