Total Must Pay $9.5 Million Over 2005 U.K. Explosion
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Total SA, Europe’s third-largest oil company, must pay 6.2 million pounds ($9.5 million) in fines and legal costs for its part in a 2005 explosion at an oil storage depot outside of London.
Five companies must pay a total of 9.43 million pounds in fines and costs, Judge David Calvert-Smith said in the criminal case at St. Albans Crown Court, near London, today.