Algoma slapped with $500,000 oily bilge water fine

Canada’s Algoma Central Corporation has been fined $500,000 in an American court after pleading guilty to dumping unprocessed oily bilge water into Lake Ontario. The US Department of Justice said employees onboard the violated the US Clean Water Act back in 2017 when they dumped approximately 45,000 litres of the wastewater into the lake. “The …

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