today called for Rio de Janeiro, 3 Apr (EFE).-the Ministry public Brazil Federal civil court action pay compensation of 20 billion reales (10.952 million dollars) against the American Chevron oil by the oil spill occurred on 4 March in one of their wells in the Atlantic.
The request of the Attorney-General in the city of Campos, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, was the second in less than two weeks against the American company and its contracted company Transocean, the Agency said in a statement reported.
The past March 21, the public prosecutor’s Office denounced the two companies and 17 executives of both for his responsibility in the discharge of 2,400 barrels of oil occurred last November in the field of Frade and sought compensation for identical amount.
In the request, the Office also considered the immediate stoppage of activities in that field and the ban on remittances abroad by the two companies.
As in the first request for compensation, the public prosecutor’s Office demanded a revaluation of the Emergency Plan of the company, pointed to as the main cause of spills of oil in the Campos Basin.
“Damages environmental and heritage of the State are, at this point, incalculable,” said in a statement the Prosecutor in Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Santos de Oliveira.
In the complaint, the Attorney-General also requested that an investigation into the control that is being done to the two companies by the regulatory authorities of the oil industry and the environment in the country. EFE
