Propane Cleanup Taken Over By City -- What does that imply? Maybe no money for victims?

This is not a good sign for local residents who want compensation.

Last week Sunrise said it would not try to reopen. Now we learn they are not fulfilling their duty to clean up. This suggests the company is insolvent.

Did they have adequate, or any, insurance that would cover the losses? Legally they probably should have but just because something ought to be does not make it so.

If Sunrise is gone there may well be no one who can be sued -- I have real doubts about the liability of the regulator or the City let along the Province.


Toronto takes over cleanup around propane blast site

The City of Toronto is taking over responsibility for the cleanup of properties around the site of last weekend's huge propane explosion, effective Saturday, the city announced Friday night.

Ontario's Environment Ministry issued an order to Sunrise Propane on Wednesday to clean up the blast site and the surrounding area.

The City of Toronto said that as of Friday, the requirements of the order for off-site work had not been met and the Environment Ministry had received no assurances that the work will be done "in a timely way."

Story here:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/080815/canada/canada_blast_cleanup