Feb 20 2010
From the lovely gCaptain:
A federal judge has ordered a Hong Kong-based company to pay a $10 million fine after the cargo ship it operated caused a massive oil spill in San Francisco Bay.
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston also ordered Fleet Management Inc. to better train its officers in navigation and safety Friday.
The fine was [...]
Feb 17 2010
This just in:
New Sentencing Expected In Cosco Busan Oil Spill
Fleet Management Ltd. of Hong Kong was the operator of the Cosco Busan, responsible for hiring and training the crew, at the time the container ship struck a fender of a Bay Bridge support pier in heavy fog on Nov. 7, 2007.
More than 53,000 gallons of [...]
Jul 14 2009
November 2007, friends, is when the Cosco Busan hit the Bridge. We are just now getting our wildlife back to pre-spill levels, but it’s clear that things were really disrupted. Our blue heron is forever gone, as is our favorite harbor seal.
And in the face of that, they’re only going to give John Cota 10 [...]
Jul 08 2009
I know it’s unseemly to cackle, but
Judge Refuses 2nd SF Bay Spill Guilty Plea Attempt
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / AP) ? A Federal appeals court in San Francisco turned down a ship management company’s bid Monday to be shielded from a fine of up to $40 million if it is convicted of polluting the San [...]
Jun 08 2009
…more on the Cosco Busan debacle.
Prisoners of the Cosco Busan:
In accounting for Cota’s perplexing confusion, NTSB investigators eventually concluded that “the higher-level cognitive effort and perceptual skills” needed to interpret the Cosco Busan’s standardized radars and maps “were precisely those capabilities that would have been degraded” by the drugs that Cota had possessed. None of [...]
Jun 02 2009
By way of the mighty Jonathan, this piece of excrement…
Company Seeks Shield From $40M In Bay Spill Fines
A Hong Kong shipping company has renewed a bid to a federal judge in San Francisco to plead guilty to two charges in the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill, but has asked for the right to do so [...]
Mar 08 2009
Finally, John Cota pled guilty for slamming the Cosco Busan into the entirely obvious Oakland Bay Bridge on a stupid-foggy morning, and engaging in the most singularly nauseating marine pollution incident to occur since we have lived here.
From the mighty gCaptain:
As a result of striking the bridge, over 53,000 gallons of fuel oil were released [...]
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