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The City of Kawartha Lakes has given notice that it will seek
leave to appeal the
Divisional Court's decision, which upheld an MOE order
against it. The Order required Kawartha Lakes, the victim of a
third party oil spill, to pay for the cleanup of that spill on
public property. This is the first case since Appletex in which the
Ministry of the Environment has forced a completely innocent party
to pay for a spill cleanup, and it has major implications for all
victims of contamination across the province. It is now much
riskier for a victim to notify the MOE of a spill or historic
contamination, lest the MOE make the victim's problem even
worse.
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