Carnival Cruise Lines Hit With $20 Million Penalty For Environmental Crimes
June 5th, 2019A $20 million fine isn’t even a slap on the wrist for Carnival. On revenue of $18.8 billion, I wonder, in which column on their spreadsheet this will go?
Chicken Feed?
Pocket Lint?
F-U-We’ll-Do-It-Again?
Via: NPR:
The cruise line giant Carnival Corporation and its Princess subsidiary have agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $20 million for environmental violations such as dumping plastic waste into the ocean. Princess Cruise Lines has already paid $40 million over other deliberate acts of pollution.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz approved the terms of the deal during a hearing Monday in Miami. She had appeared to grow increasingly frustrated as the company continued to flout environmental laws during the course of the years-long case.
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Miami-based Carnival pleaded guilty Monday to six probation violations, including the dumping of plastic mixed with food waste in Bahamian waters. The company also admitted sending teams to visit ships before the inspections to fix any environmental compliance violations, falsifying training records and contacting the U.S. Coast Guard to try to redefine what would be a “major non-conformity” of their environmental compliance plan.
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Carnival has had a long history of dumping plastic trash and oily discharge from its ships, with violations dating back to 1993.
