{"id":928,"date":"2023-08-01T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/hibernia-management-development-company-ltd-pleads-guilty-to-offence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:28:03","slug":"hibernia-management-development-company-ltd-pleads-guilty-to-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/hibernia-management-development-company-ltd-pleads-guilty-to-offence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibernia Management Development Company Ltd. Pleads Guilty To Offence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced today that Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) has pled guilty to a charge stemming from an unauthorized discharge of petroleum that occurred on July 17, 2019 from the <em>Hibernia<\/em> Platform in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area.<\/p>\n<p>On July 17, 2019, HMDC notified the C-NLOPB that approximately 12,000 litres of a crude oil and water mixture was released from the <em>Hibernia<\/em> Platform into the Atlantic Ocean. In accordance with subsection 1(1), paragraph 9(i) and 6(d) of the <em>Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Drilling and Production Regulations<\/em>, this discharge was determined to be pollution. HMDC was found to have acted contrary to paragraph 24(1)(c) and thereby committed an offence pursuant to section 194 of the\u00a0<em>Canada-Newfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act<\/em> (<em>Accord Act<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><em>194 (1) Every person is guilty of an offence who<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Contravenes this Part or the regulations;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The charge followed an investigation by C-NLOPB Officers.<\/p>\n<p>A fine of $90,000 was imposed under the\u00a0<em>Accord Act<\/em>. In addition, HMDC was ordered to pay $310,000 into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/services\/environmental-funding\/programs\/environmental-damages-fund.html\">Environmental Damages Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Agreed Statement of Facts is available <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/asof_hmdc.pdf\"><u>here.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The C-NLOPB is the independent regulator of petroleum activities in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area, on behalf of the federal government and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br \/>\nLesley Rideout<br \/>\nDirector, Communications and Public Engagement<br \/>\n(709) 725-2900<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:lrideout@cnlopb.ca\">lrideout@cnlopb.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnloer.m5i.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}