Total guilty of French oil spill (BBC) {in 1999}

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Total guilty of French oil spill (BBC) {in 1999}

A court in Paris has convicted French oil company Total of "maritime pollution" over France's worst-ever oil disaster in 1999.

The tanker Erika sank 75km (45 miles) off the coast of Brittany, leaking 20,000 tonnes of oil into the sea.

Fuel contaminated 400km of coastline after the tanker broke up on 12 December 1999.

Total was fined 375,000 euros (£280,000) and ordered to pay a share of nearly 200m euros in damages.

The fine was the maximum penalty allowed.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7192085.stm

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