Oil company fined for violating a federal act
ADA – Roberson Oil Company, Inc. was fined $3,693 for violating the Clean Water Act.
Environmental Protection Agency inspectors in October found the company’s oil field production facility, Jesse Hunton Viola Unit, in Pontotoc County had discharged oil field brine into a tributary of Clear Boggy Creek. Brine and salt contaminated water going into the tributary, inspectors said.
In November, the EPA issued the company a cease and desist administrator order. The company was to stop polluting and remove all brine and residual oil from the tributary within 30 days.
A spill of only one gallon of oil can contaminate one million gallons of water, according to the EPA.
More information on federal regulations is available at http://www.epa.gov/oilspill
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And what pocket did that fine money go into? They talk aout fining students for missimg class, fines from $50.00 to $250.00 dollars whom pocket is that going into? I just get so tierd to hear about what they are going to to do on the riverfrount in Breaktown the walking path. The are spending what around $80 million dollars. I for one think that, that money good be spent on schools Meal on wheel. I just can not be leave what they do to steal money from the tax payer and the poor.