Article 416 Federal Criminal Code

A penalty of one to nine years of imprisonment and from three hundred to three thousand days fine shall be imposed on anyone who unlawfully discharges, deposits, or infiltrates, or authorizes or orders, wastewater, chemical or biochemical liquids, waste or pollutants in the soils, subsoils, marine waters, rivers, basins, bodies or other deposits or watercourses of federal jurisdiction, which causes a risk of damage or damages natural resources, flora, fauna, water quality, ecosystems or the environment.

When it involves waters that are deposited, flow in or toward a natural protected area, the imprisonment shall be increased by up to three more years and the pecuniary penalty by up to one thousand days fine.