NewsWhore
03-10-2008, 02:30 PM
The Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources has fined the Liberian registered Seaboard Caribbean, owned by Neils Jules, a total of RD$7 million for spilling nearly a thousand gallons of fuel oil in the area around Punta Caucedo, near Andres, Boca Chica on the Dominican south coast. Resolution 02-2008, dated 7 March, puts the punitive fine at 1,380 minimum wages or RD$3,659,608.20, and the cost of cleaning up the beaches and coastline near the port at RD$3,435,706.30. The costs were calculated based on the ministry's administrative regulations. The prosecutor's office at the ministry will take the case to court, and there are still pending charges since the oil spill affected wildlife and the ecology of the area as well.
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