Coldwater woman still waiting for cleanup of Trans Mountain pipeline leak on her property | CBC News
“I, at this point, have no confidence,
because in my field there was a spill that occurred and it’s been, I
believe, five years. We had promises that the contamination would be
cleaned up, and the contaminated soil is still sitting there,” said
Janice Antoine.
because in my field there was a spill that occurred and it’s been, I
believe, five years. We had promises that the contamination would be
cleaned up, and the contaminated soil is still sitting there,” said
Janice Antoine.
She’s a resident of the Coldwater reserve in B.C., where decades-old contamination was discovered on her property in 2014.
CBC
has obtained records from Trans Mountain and found there are seven
known contamination sites along the route of the existing pipeline in
B.C. and Alberta. According to Trans Mountain, five of the sites
are under active remediation and two have remediation action plans under
review with the NEB.