Oil company Total UK pleaded guilty Friday to three charges stemming from a massive oil depot fire in 2005, the biggest conflagration in Europe since World War II.
At a hearing in the Central Criminal Court in London, Total submitted written guilty pleas to two charges under the Health and Safety Act and one of polluting water stemming from the explosion and fire at the Buncefield oil depot north of London on Dec. 11, 2005.
Forty-three people were injured in the incident and 2,000 people living nearby were evacuated, but no one was killed.
Four other companies pleaded not guilty to health and safety violations. They are Hertfordshire Oil Storage …
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