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Originally Posted by Beatle17
Legally the City responsibility once they took over the land from the company that originally owned it. Read the original agreement, free land and city is responsible for cleanup, but they kept punting on that and went from $30 M cleanup to over $300 M because they kept pushing it off.
CalgaryNext wasn't the best project but don't try to pin this screw up on the Flames. That land has sat empty for at least 50 years because of the creosote.
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I don't disagree that it's the city's responsibility to clean it up (sounds a lot like orphan well's though, doesn't it?) and they possibly could have received funding from other levels of government to help on that, but CalgaryNext would have forced the issue, so it acting as the trigger includes it in to total cost. Either CSEC pays something close to market value for the land or they chip in on clean up, or - as we saw, choose a different location.