Oil spill trial opens in France

France's first trial over a major environmental disaster opened on 12 February 2007 to decide whether oil giant Total and other parties bear responsibility for the massive oil spill from the Erika shipwreck of the coast of Brittany in December 1999.

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The Tocqueville Connection, 12.2.07: France's Total among 15 in the dock over Erika oil spill http://www.adetocqueville.com/200702121826.l1ciqt608388.htm

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