The Government could demand that the company Domtar pays for the Creosote cleanup costs.
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While Alberta officials have expressed reluctance to order Domtar to remediate the site because they did not break any laws of the day, B.C. is forcing the company to clean up a former wood preserving plant that was also closed and sold in the 1960s.
South of the border, state and federal environmental protection agencies have required Domtar to pay $13. 5 million to remediate two contaminated sites, including the cleanup of a former coal tar refinery in Duluth, Minnesota that the company closed in 1948 and sold several years later.
Domtar, which had net earnings last year of $364 million on sales of $5.6 billion, says in its most recent financial filings that it has also been notified it may be responsible for an undisclosed number of other hazardous waste sites in which no formal proceedings have yet been started.
The company has set aside $60 million to cover future environmental remediation costs.
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