Some Colorado lawmakers say $1,000 a day in fines is not enough for an oil spill.
Photo courtesy of denver.cbslocal.com.
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e told you last week about the underground leak of a mysterious “natural-gas liquid” near a gas-processing plant along a creek in western Colorado. The spill was discovered on March 8, and has been spilling ever since, but plant owner Williams Corp., states he doesn’t know for sure where it’s coming from.
Meanwhile, some Colorado lawmakers are expressing dismay that state fines for such spills have been capped at $10,000 for the past half century unless the spills are deemed to have “significant adverse impact” on public health or the environment.
From the Denver iJournal
A Lafayette lawmaker says Colorado’s system of levying fines against oil and gas companies for environmental disasters like the spill this month near Parachute Creek is totally out of whack with other states and needs to be brought “into this century.”
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