Plains All American Pipeline indicted in Santa Barbara oil spill
Source: Reuters
World | Tue May 17, 2016 1:40pm EDT
Plains All American Pipeline indicted in Santa Barbara oil spill
Plains All American Pipeline Company and one of its employees have been indicted in California on criminal charges stemming from a petroleum spill last year near Santa Barbara, the company said on Tuesday.
The 46-count indictment includes 10 related to the release of crude oil or the reporting of the pipeline rupture, and 36 related to wildlife losses blamed on the spill, the company said in a press release.
An estimated 1,700 to 2,500 barrels of crude petroleum gushed onto San Refugio State Beach and into the Pacific Ocean, about 20 miles west of Santa Barbara, when an underground pipeline burst along a coastal highway on May 19, 2015.
Environmental activists and local officials have said the rupture ranks as the largest oil spill to hit the ecologically sensitive coastline northwest of Los Angeles since a massive 1969 offshore blowout dumped up to 100,000 barrels into the Santa Barbara Channel.
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