Trial Begins in 2015 Oil Pipeline Spill
4/19/2018
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Texas company that owns an oil pipeline that spilled 140,000 gallons of crude along the California coast faces a criminal trial three years after the incident.
Jury selection began Thursday in Santa Barbara County Superior Court in the case against Plains All American Pipeline.
The charges say the company violated the Clean Waters Act because some of the oil flowed into the Pacific Ocean at Refugio State Beach.
The company has said the spill was an accident not a crime.
Charges were dropped against a Plains employee and two-thirds of the original charges have been dismissed.
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Pipeline Project Spotlight
Owner:
East African Crude Oil Pipeline Company
Project:
East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)
Type:
TotalEnergies in discussions with a Chinese company after Russian supplier Chelpipe was hit by sanctions.
Length:
902 miles (1,443 km)
Capacity:
200,000 b/d
Start:
2022
Completion:
2025
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