"Smith v. Inco, 2010 ONSC 3790: What Commercial Property Owners Should Know", Focus on Environmental Law, December 2010
Date:
December 2 2010
Smith v. Inco involved an environmental class action brought on behalf of approximately 7,000 residential property owners in the City of Port Colborne, where Inco operated a nickel refinery from 1918 to 1984. The class proceeding arose primarily as a result of a number of phytotoxicological studies and testing conducted by the Ministry of the Environment (“MOE”), indicating that nickel levels in the soil in many parts of Port Colborne exceeded MOE guidelines.
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