Delaware oil refiner pleads guilty to discharging pollutants into river

Delaware oil refiner pleads guilty to discharging pollutants into river

March 18 -- A Delaware oil refiner and retail business admitted to discharging pollutants into the Delaware River and negligently releasing sulfuric acid and will pay a $10 million fine, the state´s largest criminal fine.

Motiva Enterprises LLC, which is owned by Shell Oil Co. and Saudi Refining Inc., pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, the U.S. Department of Justice said March 17. Judge Sue L. Robinson sentenced the company to pay a $10 million fine.

In July 2001, a 415,000-gallon tank at the company´s Delaware City, Del., refinery exploded, spilling spent sulfuric acid into the river. The accident also killed one worker and injured several others.
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We had one of our local lumber mills fined a million bucks for polluting

BUT THEY SAVED OVER 12 MILLION

It would have cost them close to 15 million to install the equipment and control pollutants legally

So where's the deterrent?

I mean, the river is basically made of paint and oil by now anyway.

land they love(d)..... the stupidity of mankind is only exceeded by his unbridled greed for things he doesn't need.