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Article: SHIP OPERATOR SENTENCED TO PAY MORE THAN $2 MILLION FINE FOR CONCEALING POLLUTION ON HIGH SEAS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 29, 2009
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WASHINGTON, July 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Environment & Natural Resources Division issued the following news release:
The operator of an ocean-going chemical tanker ship was sentenced today in federal court to pay a fine of more than $2 million for polluting the high seas, the Justice Department announced.
Consultores de Navegacion, a Spanish company that operates the M/T Nautilus, an ocean-going chemical tanker ship, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to pay a fine of more than $2 million and serve three years of probation for criminal violations related to the overboard discharge of oil-contaminated bilge waste on the high seas.
The company ...