Suit alleges Imperial Oil
petrochemicals polluted
Burrard Inlet foreshore

NORTH VANCOUVER Ci-
ty has launched a lawsuit
claiming that Imperial Oil
Lid. is responsible for long-
term petrochemical pollution
along a portion of the city’s
waterfront.

By Brent Mudry
Coniributing Writer

The Fullerton Lumber Co. and
Forsyth Rentals and Equipment
Ltd. are also named in the suit.

The city alleges that Imperial
Oil. ‘‘caused or permitted
petrochemical products and other
conlaminants to escape onto the
bed and foreshore of Burrard In-
let”? from waterfront property
between Bewicke Street and
MacKay Avenue.

City Mayor Jack Loucks tol:
the News that Imperial Oui is the
main subject of the suit.

‘*We contend the pollution was
created on Imperial’s property and
it flowed underground into city
property and onto Fullerton Fill.’’

Loucks described Imperial’s
property as being just north of the

railway tracks and east of Fell
Avenue,

“This contamination was
ongoing for many years, similar to
the Expo lands problems,”’
Loucks told the News.

An endorsed) writ-of-summans
was filed last Friday in the Van-
couver registry of the B.C.
Supreme Court.

City lawyer Bob Baumann of
Bull, Housser & Tupper was
unavailable for comment, but
further details of the suit will be
available when a statement-of-
claim is fited.

The suit claims Forsyth allowed
petrochemical products and other
contaminants to escape from its
property, and cites the Fullerton
Lumber Co. for pase oof
unspecified contaminants.

Imperial Oil Chemicals in
Vancouver referred inquires to its
Calgary office.

Don Coghill, the company’s
public affairs officer for B.C.,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the
Northwest Territories, referred
calls to Phil De Leeuw of Van-
couver, imperial’s environmentai
specialist in charge of active site
reclamation.

De Leeuw was unavailable for
comment to press time.

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Boater’s body found
in Indian Arm area

THE BODY of a 42-
year-old man was
discovered in the Indian
Arm area of Deep Cove
on Tuesday morning.

A Ports Canada Police
spokesman said an unmanned
12-foot runabout was found
drifting in) mid-channel near
Crocker Island in Indian Arm
early on Tuesday morning.

At 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday,

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following a search by Canadian
Coast Guard, Ports Canada
Police and concerned citizens.
the body of Kurt Giske wus
found near Best Point in’ In-
dian Arm.

It was not known to press
time Thursday whether Giske
was a North Shore resident.

Investigations into the death
have been launched by the B.C.
Coroner’s Office and Ports
Canada Police.

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Caulfeild blaze

WEST VANCOUVER Fire Department inspector Capt. Aime Lehouillier sifts through the after-
math of a fire that caused extensive damage Wednesday to a home at 4186 Rockridge Rd. in
the Caulfeild area. A napping housekeeper was the only person in the home at the time of the
blaze. The housekeeper awoke to the smoke alarm at approximstely 2 p.m. Construction
workers nearby heard the alarm and helped the housekeeper out of the home. The fire is
believed to have started in a couch, but the cause of the blaze is under investigation.No inju-

ries were reported.

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