BP faces new fines over second Alaska spill

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Edward Helmore in New York
The Guardian, Saturday 20 November 2010

BP is facing new fines in connection with its criminal conviction for a huge oil spill on Alaska's North Slope in 2006.

Federal probation officer Mary Frances Barnes argued in an Anchorage federal court yesterday that a second spill in Alaska in November last year constituted a violation of its probation.

In 2006, a corroded pipeline leaked 200,000 gallons of oil on to the tundra in the worst leak in the history of the North Slope. The company was sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to pay $20m (£12.5m) in criminal penalties and restitution.

The leak in 2009 occurred when a pipeline at the BP-operated Lisburne oil field burst, leaking nearly 46,000 gallons of crude and oily water near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/20/bp-fines-alaska-spill-conviction

[Jackpine Radical]

1. What the hell does probation amount to for a corporation?

Do they hire other corporations to be probation agents?

[Rex]

2. BP...oh I am sorry BOP responded accordingly by laughing in her

face and telling Mary to 'fook off small fry'. She did, of course, because BP owns us.

[katnapped]

3. Yeah where's Joe Barton?

Shouldn't he be apologizing for this grave injustice?

[n2doc]

4. kick n/t

[Poboy]

5. k&r