Beaching payout for New Carissa

By David Osler - Monday 14 June 2004

THE owner of New Carissa, the Japanese-controlled log carrier that beached in Oregon five years ago, is to pay the US federal government a net $6.5m.

Most of the money will be used to pay for the restoration of the environment in the Coos Bay area after the resulting 70,000 gallon oil spill killed 2,300 seabirds.

Neither the shipping company, nor...

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