A recent investigation of BP Products North America revealed that BP violated the Clean Air Act in which they had to pay 15 million dollars worth of penalties. Two fires, in 2004 and in 2005, and a leak also in 2005 put thousands of pounds of toxic pollutants in to the atmosphere. All of this was found out in a seperate investigation of another explosion in 2005 that killed 15 people and ingured hundreds more. The 15 million is only part of a 137 million dollars that is owed due to criminal, civil, and administration fees BP has paid due to more saftey violations. On a somewhat possitive side BP has paid over one billion to improve the refinery's saftey. The refinery is the third largest in the world.
In my opinion, I think that right now BP already has enough pollution fees to pay with the oil spill in the gulf now they have millions more to pay. But I dont see why they need to pay 15 million because the pollution is already in the air. It is not like oil in the water where you can scoop it out and the oil was burned so it is just a gas floating around in the air. I think they should just have to pay to increase their refinery's saftey.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/30/bp-agrees-to-pay-15m-for-refinery-violations/?hpt=T2
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