State Oil Company May Face Fine for Spill
From Times Wire Reports
The federal environmental prosecutor’s office said it had filed a criminal complaint against the country’s state oil monopoly after 5,000 barrels of oil spilled into a river that flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
State oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, could be fined up to $200,000 for the Dec. 22 spill on the Coatzacoalcos River at Nanchital, about 325 miles southeast of Mexico City, prosecutors investigating the incident said.
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