Unpublished letter to the Toronto Star, Sept 3, 2013
The reclamation of the Sydney tar ponds at public expense
illustrates a weakness in the law (Sydney tar ponds site gets 'dramatic
transformation', Aug 31).
When a company in the course of business
damages the environment, it should be made liable to repair that damage. The company should not be allowed to disappear and hang the restoration cost on
the taxpayer.
The oil companies in Alberta, for example, must be ordered to
create a fund sufficient to restore to their original state the waters and lands
they are at this moment desecrating.
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