Reply #6: Hmmm reminds me of a problem up here [View All]

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Houses were sometimes built on old factory locations, and it was (probably still is) a habit of some companies to bury toxins (waste oil etcetera) in oil drums in the ground.

There was a lot of hoopla not too long ago, a guy went to build a garage, and found some drums when he went to put in footings.

Being a good citizen, he contacted the city, (figuring there was only one or two), city called provincial, provincial called Federal, Environment Ministry got involved . .

Making a long story short,

they found DOZENS of drums buried under his lawn, and as the owner of the property, HE was being held financially responsible for the tens of thousands of dollars to do the clean-up.

I think he lost is house over it . .

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