Tomorrow the Supreme Court will rule on Grand Falls-Windsor clean-up responsbility
December 6th, 2012 | Posted in Environmental News, Mill Closures & Layoffs | 1 comment »
Tomorrow the Supreme Court of Canada will rule on who is responsible for the environmental clean-up of the former paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Will the “polluter pays” laws result in Resolute Forest Products (formerly AbitibiBowater) being assigned responsibility?
Or will the province of Newfoundland and Labrador be on the hook because they expropriated the assets of the mill after the company announced the closure in March 2009.
Read more:
Supreme Court to rule in AbitibiBowater case (CBC)
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The companies made the mess they should pay for the clean up. The province only took back the companies resources that belonged to the province since the company didn’t need the resources with the mill shutdown. The company only leased the resources from the province as long as the mill was running.