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The tragic incidents of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, and the earlier Buncefield oil depot fire in 2005 (which was Europe's biggest peacetime fire), have led many company directors, managers and other officers to re-examine the extent of their potential personal liability for environmental incidents
