Skip to main content
Advertise with the Morning Star
Urgent government intervention to halt dangerous emissions at Mossmorran, Scottish Greens warn
The Fife Ethylene plant in Mossmorran, Fife

DANGEROUS hydrocarbons released at Mossmorran show an urgent need for government intervention, the Scottish Greens warned today.

Fife’s Exxon Mobil plant is facing prosecution after a second public body submitted complaints about breaches of regulations at the site. 

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has submitted a formal report to the Procurator Fiscal over leaks of hydrocarbons at the plant in 2019.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf
Britain / 9 January 2022
9 January 2022
It is ‘unfathomable’ that staff are having to keep doors and windows open and ask pupils to layer up for a second winter, Scottish Teachers for Positive Change and Wellbeing says
Similar stories
Undated handout photo provided by the Ministry of Defence of vanguard class nuclear submarine HMS Vengeance in Gare Loch, after departing HM Naval Base Clyde in Faslane, Scotland, to go on sea trials
Environment / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025
SELF-DECEPTION: A 245-tonne steel dome is lifted onto Hinkle
Features / 15 February 2025
15 February 2025
The government’s nuclear power expansion plan is a hollow betrayal of working people that panders to wealthy corporations and will rip off consumers, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Campaigners against the bridge are seeking to save the natur
Features / 12 February 2025
12 February 2025
Furious campaigners claim that Oxford University is colluding with the council to squander £10m of public funds for a new bridge that wrecks a nature reserve, reports BERNY TORRE
Disposable vapes of varying flavours on sale in a shop
Britain / 11 December 2024
11 December 2024