Jury hands Plains a guilty verdict for role in 2015 oil spill

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Jury hands Plains a guilty verdict for role in 2015 oil spill

By Staff Report / Friday, September 7th, 2018 / Comments Off on Jury hands Plains a guilty verdict for role in 2015 oil spill

A jury found Plains All American Pipeline guilty Sept. 7 of failing to maintain its Line 901, which ruptured and spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil along the Gaviota coast in 2015. The result of the four-month trial found Plains guilty of one felony count and eight misdemeanor counts, including failing to alert…

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