CG orders massive 14-year oil spill to be cleaned up-Taylor Energy will have to pay $40,000 per day.
Coast Guard orders massive 14-year oil spill to be cleaned up
Taylor Energy will have to pay $40,000 per day until it complies.
E.A. Crunden
Nov 21, 2018, 10:40 am
The Coast Guard has ordered the company responsible for an oil spill that has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for 14 years to clean up the environmental catastrophe or face a $40,000 per day fine.
The spill has largely gone unnoticed until recently but it is one of the largest spills ever in North America.
Taylor Energy Co. was ordered last month by the U.S. government to “institute a … system to capture, contain, or remove oil” in the Gulf of Mexico, where a former site operated by the company has been steadily leaking. The order was first publicized this week.
Taylor allowed a broken oil platform off the coast of southeast Louisiana to leak an estimated 10,500 gallons to 29,000 gallons of oil per day, five to 13 times larger than the government’s initial estimates.
“The worst-case estimate of the daily volume of release far exceeds previous estimates and is in the order of hundreds of barrels per day,” the Coast Guard told Taylor.
The Oct. 23 order commands Taylor to address the crisis and asserts that the company “must eliminate the surface sheen and avoid the deficiencies associated with prior containment systems,” or face a $40,000 per day fine.
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https://thinkprogress.org/coast-guard-taylor-energy-oil-spill-14-years-25b1c0528e8a/
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