Company Fined $1 million for Oil Pipeline Spill

 

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A Casper, Wyoming-based pipeline company will have to cough up $1 million because of an oil pipeline spill that happened in 2015 in the state of Montana.

Bridger Pipeline LLC will be forced to give $800,000 to environmental projects and another $200,000 to the state’s general fund according to an announcement by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.

The spill happened in January 2015 and spilled an estimated 31,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River near the town of Glendive. It was bad enough that residents of the town soon reported a bad taste and smelling from drinking water.

The carcinogen, Benzene was eventually detected at high levels in the drinking water.

The Billings Gazette reported that by the time of the spill, Bridger Pipeline had a history of 30 spills and other fines.