EPA Pursuit Of $1.5 Million Fine Reaches 13-Year Mark; Polluting Oil-Well Owner Pleads "Principle"
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Peter E. Jolly, 70 and now living in Cocoa Beach, Fla., has repeatedly cited poverty and illness and delayed court hearings while only paying $3,000 of his tab. The former Owensboro businessman describes himself as "beyond broke," living on Social Security payments and not much else. Jolly refuses to pay, in part he says, on principle and in part because of a lack of resources.
"They spent well over a million dollars to collect something I don't have the money to pay," Jolly told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
The EPA disagrees and its lawyers accuse him of hiding his money "through a network of shadowy business affiliations, continually creating corporations and moving assets."
The fines arose from underground injection mines in Hancock County in western Kentucky. The method, also known as enhanced recovery, involves shooting water, steam or some other substance into an oil or natural gas well and using the pressure to push up some of the remaining oil and gas.
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