Posted on 10/26/2017 8:35:02 PM PDT by jerod
Company pleaded guilty to 34 counts under the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act
Irving Oil has been ordered to pay $4 million for offences under the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, including failure to comply with safety requirements and inadequate training of staff, after an investigation related to the Lac Mégantic, Que., disaster.
About $400,000 of the penalty is a fine.
Almost $3.6 million will be used to implement research programs on federal safety standards and regulations under the federal act, according to a news release Thursdsay from the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
Irving Oil pleaded guilty earlier to 34 counts under the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act.
The charges were related to a joint investigation by Transport Canada and the RCMP after the train derailment in Lac Mégantic on July 6, 2013, that killed 47 people.
And today the government of Canada paid out $31.3 million dollars to three (count that up... Three, or in in figures... 3) individuals who were detained (not killed) by Syrian security forces because of information supplied by the equivalent of the CIA in Canada... CSIS. Something is seriously screwed up in the Socialist state of Canada.
Build more pipelines.
I don’t know why Irving Oil would have any responsibility in this incident. The culprits here were the railroad company and a local volunteer fire department.
a good lawyer knows the law
a great lawyer knows the judge
How much to victims’ families?
Nada, as I read the settlement. All to lawyers and researchers.
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