Shell's payment for '99 pipeline blast to be negotiated (3 dead., $250k)

[ConsAreLiars]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/157657_pipeline22.html
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Thursday, January 22, 2004

Shell's payment for '99 pipeline blast to be negotiated

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF

Shell Oil Co. has agreed to pay $250,000 of a $3.05 million fine proposed by the federal Office of Pipeline Safety after a 1999 blast killed three people in Bellingham.

The remaining $2.8 million will be negotiated with Olympic Pipe Line Co., safety office spokesman Damon Hill said.
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Negotiations with Olympic are complicated, Hill said, because Olympic has filed for bankruptcy protection.
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That works out to a fine of $83,333 for each person killed by corporate bottom-liners. Two young children and a teenager.

Some background:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pipelines/

[kayell]

1. Wow, that's even less than the Bushco proposed cap of 250K

per person on medical malpractice. Of course, these people were not middle aged wealthy white republicans, so not worth top dollar. Well, at least the fines are not so severe that they would cause any problem for the corporation. That would be bad for business, and we certainly wouldn't want anything unamerican like that going on.