From: Orange County Register
By BRIAN MELLEY / The Associated Press
In this May 21, 2015, file photo, an oil-covered bird flaps its
wings amid at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif. Plains All
American Pipeline said in a statement Tuesday that a California grand
jury has indicted the company and one of its employees in connection
with the pipeline break.
LOS ANGELES – A Texas pipeline company responsible for spilling more
than 140,000 gallons of crude oil on the California coast last year was
indicted on dozens of criminal charges in the disaster that closed
popular beaches and killed sea lions and birds, prosecutors said
Tuesday.
Plains All American Pipeline and one of its employees face 46 counts
of state law violations in the May 19, 2015, spill that initially went
undetected until oil began pouring onto a pristine beach on the Santa
Barbara coastline and running into the ocean.
Initial investigations by federal regulators found the 2-foot-wide
underground pipeline was severely corroded where it broke on land. MORE
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