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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: PacifiCorp
Current Parent Company: Berkshire Hathaway
Penalty: $4,966,000
Year: 2008
Date: May 2, 2008
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Secondary Offense: Clean Water Act and related
Violation Description: Along with PPL Montana (a subsidiary of PPL Corp.), Portland General Electric Co., Avista Corp. and Puget Sound Energy, PacifiCorp was one of five owners of Montana's Colstrip power plant that agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the plant was contaminating the town's water supply. Details on how much each defendant would pay were not made public, but PPL and Avita disclosed that their shares totaled $10 million. Here we assumed the other $14.9 million was divided equally between Puget Sound, Portland General Electrical and PacifiCorp.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: private litigation
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
Facility State: Montana
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Nebraska
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: diversified
Specific Industry of Current Parent: diversified
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