GOLDEN, British Columbia — Canadian Pacific has been fined $31,500 (Canadian) by the Province of British Columbia for a pollution violation, the Coast Mountain News reports.
The penalty, for failure to comply with terms of a waste discharge permit, was assessed in the third quarter of 2018.
A CP spokesman told the news site the railroad has taken steps to correct the problem, including upgrading its treatment system and hiring a full-time treatment plant operator.
Hardly – Probably more like environmental staff, cut back like everybody else tried to pawn off the required daily checks, maintenance and recordkeeping on some other folks and they lacked the ability to deal with the system and still do their other work. (or their was an extraordinary event that pushed something like an oil-water separator beyond compliance before waste water was sent to a municipal waste water plant.)
Reading the newspaper article CP done some s#%t.
Funny that the largest violator by far, as listed in the newspaper article, is a golf course. So often “compliant” is a completely unattainable philosophical ideal. Get branded as “OOC”, or “out of compliance”, and that brings out the lawyers, ready to save mankind by making sure they have at least 7 figure salaries. Because we all know, nothing saves mankind as well as a bunch of rich lawyers…