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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I copied this from the formal City response:
Is The City responsible to pay the costs to remediate the creosote contamination on the West Village lands?
No. In 1997, a Release Agreement was signed between the Province and The City stating that Canada Creosote site contamination was not caused or contributed to by The City.
Interesting answer to their own posed question. Sounds like posturing for the province to pay for this. They could certainly try and get a potential buyer to pay for it, but there would no legal responsibility in that case, simply a negotiating point.
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KK said at the STH session that the agreement not to make the City responsible applied unless the land was disturbed. So if there is development it will have to be dealt with.
Although now that it appears to be migrating across the river there will likely be some urgency to clean it up in any event.