Another probe is under way into Royal Dutch Shell's 2012 Alaska drilling season, this time for possible violations of international marine environmental rules, Reuters reported on its website Thursday citing a U.S. Coast Guard official.
Another probe is under way into Royal Dutch Shell's 2012
Alaska
drilling
season, this time for possible violations of international marine environmental
rules, Reuters reported on its website Thursday citing a U.S. Coast Guard
official.
The Coast Guard has asked federal prosecutors to consider taking action on
possible violations of the International Convention for the Prevention of
Pollution from Ships committed in the operations of Shell's Kulluk drillship,
said Rear Admiral Thomas Ostebo, head of the Coast Guard in Alaska, in the
report.
Rear-Adm. Ostebo said he had commissioned one investigation already launched
into the Dec. 31 grounding of the Kulluk and that the Coast Guard has forwarded
findings of safety and environmental violations on the Noble Discoverer,
Shell's other Alaska drillship, to U.S. prosecutors for possible enforcement
action.
"Last week, I also referred a separate Kulluk investigation into potential
MARPOL violations from 2012 to the Department of Justice for their review and
potential follow-on action," Rear-Adm. Ostebo was quoted as saying at a
field hearing convened by Senator Mark Begich.
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