New York:
An American jury has ordered oil giant Chevron to pay $ 745 million to pollute the marshy land near New Orleans and has later failed to rehabilitate the affected area. The sentence was handed over to a marshy region in the southeastern of Plaxwimines Parish, Louisiana, New Orleans by a jury in Point a La Hash on Friday.
Contacted by AFP on Sunday, Chevron’s leading test Attorney Mike Philips stated that the company would “appeal to the decision to address several legal errors, leading to this unjust result.”
Placwimins officials sued the Chevron in 2001 after their acquisition of Taxaco, Texaco. He accused Texako of violating the environmental protection law adopted in Louisiana in 1978.
The lesson stated that “exploration and production sites will be approved, re -prepared, detoxified, and otherwise maximum extent will be practically restored to their original position at the end of the operation.”
But the case alleged that Chevron and Texaco did not fulfill their obligations.
Local authorities also accused the group that they deteriorate the effects of the tide by spoiling the swamp that protects from the rising level of the sea.
The jury awarded a $ 575 million plateau for the loss of part of its land, now permanently under water, $ 161 million for pollution and $ 9 million on abandonment of equipment.
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