Chevron Halt Sought by Brazil Prosecutors as Remedy to Spill
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Chevron Corp. and Transocean Ltd. should halt operations in Brazil and pay 20 billion reais ($10.7 billion) in damages after an oil spill last month, prosecutors urged a federal court.
“Chevron and Transocean weren’t capable of controlling the damages from a spill of 3,000 barrels of oil, which proves a lack of environmental planning and management,” the federal prosecutors’ office in Campos, Rio de Janeiro state, said today in a statement on the Federal Public Ministry’s website. The prosecutors didn’t say in which court the suit was filed.