Oil Transport Company to Pay $6 Million For Damages From Spill Off Massachusetts

摘要

A New York oil transport company and its affiliates have agreed to pay more than $6 million to state and federal authorities to settle a portion of the natural resource damage claims stemming from a 2003 oil spill off the coast of Massachusetts, the Department of Justice said Nov. 15 (United States v. Bouchard Transportation Co., D. Mass., No. l:10-cv-11958, proposed consent decree filed, 11/15/10).rnUnder the terms of a proposed consent decree filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Tug Evening Tide Corp. and B. No 120 Corp., would pay the $6 million into a fund to be administered by the Department of the Interior to restore shoreline and aquatic habitats and to make other improvements.