Owners of one of the world's largest cargo-shipping businesses — a company for which the Port of Tacoma last year built a 171-acre terminal — agreed yesterday to pay $25 million in fines for secretly dumping oil into the oceans and repeatedly doctoring log books to cover it up.

In an investigation that started with an accidental 500-gallon oil spill on the Columbia River four years ago, state and federal authorities ultimately caught seven Evergreen International ships routinely shutting off alarm systems or using special pipes and hoses — all to intentionally bypass pollution controls and dump oily waste and sludge into the high seas.

Evergreen, the largest single shareholder of Evergreen Marine, one of the Port of Tacoma's largest container-ship customers, pleaded guilty to 24 felonies, including attempting to obstruct Coast Guard inspections, and will pay the largest vessel-pollution fine in the Justice Department's history.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002231132_evergreen05m.html

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Well good thing they were caught...even if it was a relative slap on the wrist....I am surprised half of Kalifornia isn't outside their gates raising holy hell.

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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

What's got California to do with this...?

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Kalifornia is environazi central.............odd they are so quiet about this one.

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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Yea, that's why I live in one of the most polluted cities's in the States...

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Los Angeles had problems long before we got there....

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1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Boats and ships routinely dump oil, sewage, garbage and ballast illegally. Most never get caught.

Search for zebra mussels, same deal.

It may also be interesting to search for Evergreen's campaign contributions for the past few years. I suspect that if they had their money in the right places this story would have never seen the light of day.

Of that I have no doubt.............................

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1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
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1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Evergreen has a monopoly down in the Port of LA. LA has a lot of problems but it does have a lot of chemicals dumped in the water and it literally stinks at times. The environmental lab I used to work for has a policy for no diving in the LA Area for 3 days due to the crap that comes down out of the storm drains and the LA river. One has to keep in mind that having 10 million people jammed in one area causes a lot of pollution one way or another. Some people make a bigger stink about it than others but I feel that things ought not to go unnoticed. Just because we don't see it everyday doesn't mean it's insignificant.

500 gallons of oil in a harbor contaminates a LOT of surface water which in turn kills plankton and pretty much everything else that supports highter tier game fish....and commerical fishermen wonder why their business is declining and their crabs are smaller etc.....

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There is a vast difference between an accidental spill and intentional dumping.......they should be hung for intentional dumping.....

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1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Agreed 100%

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