PETROL LEAKS
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that petrol station operators must take responsibility for oil and petrol leaks, unless they can demonstrate that the pollution is the fault of the oil company supplying their fuel. Its ruling, which is a precedent across the European Union (EU), came in a case involving Belgium's Brussels capital region and Texaco. The local authority was seeking compensation for damage caused to a building, which was partly flooded by fuel saturated water leaking from a Texaco petrol station. The ECJ has been helping ...
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