“Sewer king” blacklisted by city
A contractor who was supposedly cleaning city sewers and sending the resulting gunk to be properly processed at an Ontario site was actually dumping it on agricultural land outside town. The company has now been blacklisted by the city.
jeather 09:11 on 2020-10-14 Permalink
I always wonder how this works, every cheating construction company folds and reopens under a slightly different name every few years — what does the blacklist look like, or is this a very obvious way around it?
Ephraim 09:41 on 2020-10-14 Permalink
They open new shell companies with someone else as the owner. Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see that the city is suing them for violation of the contract. And I didn’t see that the Quebec government is forcing them to detox the dump site. So unless this happens and unless their was a financial guarantee, they are going to get away with it and the politicians aren’t really challenging it. And that’s the problem… you sue them for every last cent and you hold the executives personally for their actions. So, after all the money from the company is gone… so is the money of the executives. And you go through their accounts to see where and who they gave money to and go after that as well. You make their lives a misery, so that they think about it a second time before trying it, and so does anyone else.
Kate 09:36 on 2020-10-15 Permalink
Ephraim, Radio-Canada has the story on Thursday, but it too only mentions blacklisting by the city. If the company has been fined or otherwise penalized for breaking environmental laws, it isn’t mentioned.