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Clean up costs for contaminated sites in Nova Scotia soar
The estimated cost to the province to clean up toxic chemicals left behind from approximately 60 historic mine sites, Sydney Steel, and the toxic mess in the Boat Harbour wastewater facility where effluent flowed from Pictou County’s Northern Pulp mill is now $600.3 million.
And that liability estimate will go up once the Boat Harbour clean up finally gets underway, according to the finance department’s controller Rob Bourgeois.
Bourgeois was one of several witnesses during Wednesday’s public accounts committee at the legislature.
The committee was following up on recommendations made in past reports from Auditor General Kim Adair regarding the upkeep of 4,100 bridges and the remediation of dozens of contaminated sites identified by a task force during the 1980s. |Read more|