Total found guilty in 1999 French oil spill case http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSPAB00375220080117?sp=true
Wed Jan 16, 2008
By Thierry Leveque
PARIS (Reuters) - A French court ruled on Wednesday that oil giant Total SA was responsible for the 1999 sinking of the tanker Erika and ordered it to pay millions of euros in damages for one of France's worst environmental disasters. http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSPAB00375220080117?sp=true