Southern Union Company Announces Granting of Petition for Writ of Certiorari by U.S. Supreme Court
28 Novembre 2011 - 11:39PM
Business Wire
Southern Union Company (NYSE:SUG) today announced that the U.S.
Supreme Court has granted its petition for a Writ of Certiorari and
will review the company’s 2009 sentence for an environmental
violation.
Eric D. Herschmann, vice chairman, president and chief operating
officer of Southern Union, said, “We are gratified that the Supreme
Court will hear our case. Southern Union was the victim of a crime
by vandals who broke into one of our facilities. The company
voluntarily bore the cost of the cleanup and was commended for its
efforts by the state of the Rhode Island. We look forward to
arguing our position before the Supreme Court.”
The matter stemmed from a 2004 break-in at the company’s
Pawtucket, Rhode Island facility, in which vandals found and
released mercury at the site and in a nearby neighborhood. The
company sold its Rhode Island operations in 2006. Although the
company had been commended by the state for its clean-up efforts,
the then U.S. Attorney in Rhode Island filed a three-count
indictment against the company in 2007. The company was convicted
of a single violation of the federal Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act for storage of mercury without a permit and sentenced
to a fine of $6 million and a payment of $12 million in community
service. The company appealed the conviction to the First Circuit,
a panel of which affirmed the conviction and the sentence. The
First Circuit denied rehearing en banc, leading to the filing of
the petition for a Writ of Certiorari at the U.S. Supreme
Court.
About Southern Union
Company
Southern Union Company, headquartered in Houston, is one of the
nation’s leading diversified natural gas companies, engaged
primarily in the transportation, storage, gathering, processing and
distribution of natural gas. The company owns and operates one of
the nation’s largest natural gas pipeline systems with more than
20,000 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines and one of
North America’s largest liquefied natural gas import terminals,
along with serving more than half a million natural gas end-user
customers in Missouri and Massachusetts. For further information,
visit www.sug.com.
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