Upstream Story India, Mundra A new coal-to-polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant is slated to be built in an industrial zone where the heavy use of coal has...
Upstream Story Canada, Chemical Valley, Aamjiwnaan... The Aamjiwnaang First Nation is surrounded by refineries, negatively impacting the environment and the community. ...
Upstream Story Canada, Alberta Oil Sands Local communities have seen the production of oil increase dramatically in the Oil Sands, one of the largest sources of ...
Upstream Story United States, Pennsylvania Extractive industries, from coal to a petrochemical buildout, have created a captive workforce and impacted the lives of...
Upstream Story Dilles Bottom, Ohio Uncertainty around the construction of an ethane cracker, leaves residents in the dark about future build outs in the ar...
Upstream Story United States, Louisiana An 85-mile corridor along the Mississippi River has the country’s highest concentration of petrochemical plants and refi...
Upstream Story United States, Texas Port Arthur With the largest refinery in the country, industry dominates the cityscape and covers the entire area with toxic air, al...
Upstream Story United States, Texas Corpus Christi Water is allocated to the growing petrochemical industry instead of to the community.
Upstream Story United States, California On the ancestral lands of the Gabrielino/Tongva, Tataviam, Kizh, and Chumash people, local communities in Wilmington, Ca...
Upstream Story South Africa, Durban Communities living between two petrochemical plants suffer from medical conditions linked to the pollution and struggle ...
Upstream Story Kenya, Turkana County New oil extraction activities create uncertainty around land rights and health risks for the nomadic people of the regio...
Upstream Story Uganda, Kabal Subcounty A large petrochemical complex forces thousands to relocate, with too little compensation to find equivalent homes and la...
Upstream Story Nigeria, Odimodi A Shell Oil spill has destroyed the livelihoods of the community, with no solution in sight.
Upstream Story Argentina, Ingeniero White A mega petrochemical pole has transformed the landscape, wrecking environmental havoc and negatively impacting the healt...
Upstream Story Spain, Tarragona Along with Barcelona’s industrial zone, Tarragona hosts around 60% of the Spanish plastic production and 25% of the chem...
Upstream Story Belgium, Ecaussinnes Ecaussinnes has been known as the hot spot for nurdles pollution, also called pellets. The source of this pollution is t...
Upstream Story Belgium, Antwerpen In the port of Antwerp, Belgium, plans for expansion by petrochemical company Ineos have been systematically challenged,...
Upstream Story Scotland, Grangemouth The petrochemical industry no longer provides jobs to the Grangemouth community, but dominates the cityscape and pollute...
Upstream Story Taiwan, Kaohsiung City Pollution and Explosion accidents from the petrochemical industry terrify the residents near the Dashe Petrochemical Ind...
Upstream Story Taiwan, Taixi Mailiao The Sixth Naphtha Cracker of Formosa Plastics has drastically changed the health of the community and the ocean, leaving...
Upstream Story Taiwan, Taixi Village Dacheng Towns... Air pollution from the petrochemical industry, and the Sixth Naphtha Cracker of Formosa Plastics, has created a cancer v...
Upstream Story Bangladesh, Dhaka The Buriganga river is strangling in waste, with growing activity of the plastics industry implemented on its shores, an...
Upstream Story India, Tamot The Indian Government supports the creation of plastic parcs for the plastic sector. In Tamot, communities worry about f...
Upstream Story India, Dahej National and international companies have chemical plants in this location. With polluted land and waterways, fishermen ...
Upstream Story India, Manali The petrochemical cluster stretching from North Chennai, through Manali, to Ennore hosts over 30 high polluting industri...
Upstream Story India, Jamnagar The biggest oil refining hub of the world pollutes a national park with impunity.
Upstream Story India, Eloor The Periyar river is polluted by toxic liquids being dumped into it. Poisonous gases are pumped into the air.
