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Oil spill company offers compensation
Brisbane :: Australia | 4 months ago
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Oil spill ship company offers higher compensation July 22, 2009 11:31am THE shipping company behind one of Australia's worst environmental disasters has offered to pay more in compensation than it is legally required to do. On March 11, the Pacific...
Tags: oil spill, Swire Shipping, pacific adventurer, Moreton Bay
Cosco Busan pilot gets 10 months in prison
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility John Cota, 61, pleaded guilty in March to misdemeanor charges of negligently polluting the waters and killing more than 2,000 migratory sea birds that were caught in the oil slick from the Cosco Busan. At today's hearing in San Francisco, defense lawyer...
Tags: John Cota, San Francisco Bay, Cosco Busan, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, oil spill
Australian Broadcasting Company: Govt needs to prove company's oil spill pledge
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility A maritime law expert says the Queensland Government will have to prove the shipping company responsible for a massive oil spill promised to foot the whole clean-up bill. Both the Queensland and Federal governments are demanding Swire Shipping pay the...
Tags: oil spill, Queensland
Company turns tight on oil spill costs
Sunshine Coast :: Australia | 5 months ago
Credibility The cyclone-buffeted ship leaked 270,000 litres of fuel into Moreton Bay in March, blackening beaches on Moreton and Bribie islands and along the Sunshine Coast. But lawyers for Swire Shipping wrote to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh this week saying the...
Tags: oil spill, Queensland
Exxon to pay interest on Valdez oil spill damages
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Alaska — Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. says it won't appeal hundreds of millions of dollars in interest on punitive damages resulting from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The Irving, Texas-based company will pay $470 million in interest on more than $507.5...
Tags: punitive damages, oil spill, Exxon Mobil Corp., valdez oil, Exxon Valdez
Exxon to pay $627m for Valdez oil spill
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Exxon to pay 'small fraction' of original penalty From correspondents in Washington June 16, 2009 09:06am A US federal appeals court has ordered Exxon Mobil Corp to pay $US507.5 million ($627.6 million) in punitive damages plus interest for the 1989...
Tags: Exxon Valdez, Alaska Natives, Exxon Mobil Corp., punitive damage, oil spill, valdez oil, Exxon Ordered, appeal court, business owners, U.S. Supreme Court
Sailors held in South Korea return
Mumbai :: India | 5 months ago
Credibility In December 2007, a crane barge rammed their stationary ship in stormy weather. The accident caused a spillage of 10,000 tonnes of oil out of the 2,60,000 tonnes that the ship was carrying. The seafarers were jailed on charges of negligence and causing...
Tags: oil spill
CN to pay $1.4M for Alta. oil spill
Edmonton :: Canada | 6 months ago
Credibility Alta. â CN will pay $1.4 million in penalties for a derailment and oil spill at Wabamun Lake almost four years ago, an Alberta judge ruled Monday. The company pleaded guilty to three charges in Stony Plain Provincial Court. One charge was under Alberta's...
Tags: Alberta, Cheakamus River, Lake Wabamun, oil spill, settles charge, Alta
Moreton oil spill pelicans to be released
Sydney :: Australia | 7 months ago
Credibility The birds have been cared for at the Fleay's Wildlife Park on the Gold Coast. They are the last birds to be returned to the island after the oil spill about two months ago. Moreton Island was officially declared clean on Wednesday, although crews are...
Tags: oil spill
Oil spill damage to be announced
Sydney :: Australia | 7 months ago
Credibility The state of Moreton Island beaches affected by one of Queensland's worst oil spills will be revealed on Wednesday...Thirty-one shipping containers fell off the cargo vessel Pacific Adventurer, piercing the ship's fuel storage and spilling 250 tonnes...
Tags: oil spill, Swire Shipping, Queensland Transport, Moreton Island, pacific adventurer, fuel oil
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