Former Alaska refinery owner ordered to pay for solvent leak

Source: Associated Press, January 4, 2020
Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/

The former owner of an Alaska crude oil refinery has been ordered to pay millions in damages for releasing large amounts of a refinery solvent, sulfolane, into groundwater and polluting hundreds of residents’ drinking water wells.
Superior Court Judge Pro Tem Warren Matthews in Fairbanks ordered Williams Alaska Petroleum, former owner of the North Pole Refinery, to pay $29.4 million for costs and damages. Read more.

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