Government Announces Settlement With Ovintiv

(Salt Lake City, TX) — Colorado-based Ovintiv must pay more than 16-million dollars as part of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice. The settlement announced on Monday is to resolve Clean Air Act violations stemming from the company’s oil and gas production facilities on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah. The company must pay the U.S. and Utah a civil penalty of five point five million dollars and implement extensive compliance measures to reduce pollution emitted from 139 of its facilities across the state.