Louisiana coastal worker alleges dredge company ordered coverup of 2016 oil spill
Tristan Baurick
NEW ORLEANS A marine contractor who ruptured an oil pipeline during a Louisiana coastal restoration project itself stemming from the BP oil disaster blames the company leading the operation for the resulting spill and says it directed him to cover up evidence and keep quiet.
James Tassin, a heavy equipment operator from Harvey, is providing evidence to federal prosecutors for possible water pollution charges against Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., the Houston-based company that the government hired to rebuild a Plaquemines Parish island six years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster oiled it.
A marine contractor from Harvey is facing federal water pollution charges for puncturing an oil pipeline while working on a coastal restoration project off Plaquemines Parish in 2016 a project itself spurred by the 2010 BP oil disaster.