Texas company indicted for 2015 oil spill that destroyed California beaches
- 8 years ago
Texas pipeline company Plains All American Pipeline, which spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil on the California coast last year, was indicted on dozens of criminal charges that shut down popular beaches and killed wildlife, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Plains and one of its employees face 46 counts of state law violations in the May 19,2015 spill that initially went undetected as a severely corroded 2-foot-wide pipe ruptured and oil poured onto a clean beach on the Santa Barbara coastline and flowed out to sea.
Plains could face fines of up to $2.8 million if convicted of all the charges, prosecutors said.
Plains said in a statement the spill was an accident and believes no criminal behavior occurred.
Plains and one of its employees face 46 counts of state law violations in the May 19,2015 spill that initially went undetected as a severely corroded 2-foot-wide pipe ruptured and oil poured onto a clean beach on the Santa Barbara coastline and flowed out to sea.
Plains could face fines of up to $2.8 million if convicted of all the charges, prosecutors said.
Plains said in a statement the spill was an accident and believes no criminal behavior occurred.