2 shipping firms admit to illegal ocean dumping

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Mar 21, 5:43 PM EDT
2 shipping firms admit to illegal ocean dumping

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Two international shipping firms have admitted they illegally dumped waste oil from vessels that docked in New Jersey, Delaware and California.

The plea agreement was announced Thursday in Newark, N.J., by U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.

The German firm Columbia Shipmanagement and Cyprus-based Columbia Shipmanagement Ltd. agreed to pay a combined $10.4 million.

More than $2 million of the payments the companies make will go to preservation and protection efforts in shore areas hit by Superstorm Sandy.




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[elleng]

1. Sounds like peanuts to me.

[Veilex]

2. This is not a sufficient punishment. EOM

[glinda]

3. Of course not. Damage is done long term and you can't bring

back the dead.