By Gary Meyer, Patric Hedlund and Marcy Axness, TME

Sentencing is scheduled this week for a company operating oil pipelines through Lebec and the Mountain Communities. Plains All American Pipeline, LP was convicted in September by a state jury on nine criminal counts in the worst crude oil spill on California’s coastline since the 1960s.

In a press release, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the company was convicted of felony failure to properly maintain its dangerous, highly-pressurized…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: The Plains West Coast Pipeline facility in Lebec, and (inset) the sign at the entrance on Digier Road.

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This is part of the December 14, 2018 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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