Oil giant at fault in French tanker accident
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Jan 16 - A French court has ruled that Total was responsible for one of France's worst environmental disasters and ordered it to pay damages for one of France's worst environmental disasters.The tanker Erika broke in two and sank in heavy seas in the Bay of Biscay some 45 miles off the French coast in December 1999. The shipwreck poured 20,000 tons of toxic fuel oil into the sea crippling local industries, fouling beaches and shoreline and killing tens of thousands of seabirds.
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