The arrest of Zoltan Bakonyi was announced by the PM Viktor Orban. Mr Orban also said the company would be temporarily nationalised and that those responsible for the disaster should bear the financial consequences. Eight people have so far died from the 4 October spill near Ajka in the west of the country. About 150 people were also injured after up to 700,000 cubic metres (24.7m cu ft) of toxic by-product from the production of alumina burst from a storage reservoir. The residue has covered an area of 40 sq km (15.6 sq miles) and the contamination has spread into the region's waterways. … Read ahead
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The state-run Xinhua News Agency gave no immediate details on the survivor, found nearly four days after the disaster struck. Earlier Wednesday, a 50-year-old man was rescued who had been trapped in knee-deep mud on the second floor of a hotel, Xinhua said. Local officials were cited as saying at least 627 people were still missing. The … 
Flooding in China that has killed more than 700 people this year and inundated countless communities looks set to worsen as the country gets deeper into typhoon season, the government has warned. But officials, in the first high-level press briefing on weeks of deadly flooding plaguing much of the country’s southern half, said a disaster on the scale of historic 1998 flooding on the Yangtze River would likely be averted … 
Testimony from today’s hearings seemed to indicate the same: Ronald Sepulvado, a BP well site leader, testified that weeks before the explosion on the rig, leaks were found on a control pod of the blowout preventer—an important safety device that failed to stop the disaster. (Earlier hearings revealed that one of the two control pods also had a … 
Witnesses told reporters that the sea first retreated and a "very big wave" followed rapidly, crashing ashore and sweeping boats and debris into the ocean. Amongst the widespread devastation and damage throughout Port-au-Prince and elsewhere, vital infrastructure necessary to respond to the disaster was severely damaged or destroyed. This included all … 
When you think about it (while on certain drugs), the oil spill is actually a dream come true for President Obama. The worse the spill gets, the better the chance Obama has of imposing a carbon tax on the American people. Just another great example of our nefarious leader capitalizing on disaster, right… 
CJ Warner was at the top of her game when she saw the writing on the wall. Twenty years into a glass-ceiling-busting career at BP, she had risen to the rank of Head of Global Refining for BP, making her one of the highest ranking executives in the oil industry. That was when she realized that she was running towards a dead end. “I had a slow but growing realization that the industry was maturing, the current fields were falling off in volume more quickly than anticipated, and the feats required to find new oil were becoming more and more heroic.” Prophetic words perhaps for someone who left BP a year before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but she wasn’t so much running away from something bad as she was running towards something better. …