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Oil broker fights Quebec cleanup charge
Your comment, Mr. Warner, is worse than some of these reports. If World Oil sold the crude at the point of loading it should not have any responsibility. If they were responsible for the transport to a point in ME or far eastern Canada before the sale was complete then they do have responsibility. Your comment does not clarify whether this is what the fine print says.
Was World Fuel involved in loading the commodity? If not, then Quebec needs to slam its threat into reverse and go after the company involved in the physical loading of the commodity in question. Many sellers have absolutely nothing to do with the actual loading of a commodity into the container for shipment. Sellers and shippers are not always one in the same. The article is not very clear about how exactly World Fuel is involved beyond being the seller.
Blame, threats, responsibility, who cares !! Just step- up to the plate like BP did in the Gulf, and "git ur done . "
World Fuel Services missed the fine print on the Irving Contract. To bad so sad, get the cheque book out.
Where do these people get the idea that the Government du Quebec does not mean business!
I saw a Pepsi can alongside the road this morning. I guess the city can mandate Pepsi to clean it up?..
Could World Fuel have not described the load correctly, and would that make a difference? There was talk earlier of benzene presence delaying clean-up operations. Was it World Fuel’s place to test what was loaded? Lots of tests made on loads in undamaged tankers.
Jim Norton : Last time I looked a can of Pepsi was not a regulated hazardous material. Also there are many states that collect a deposit to encourage recycling
This is what environmental laws are about making sure that there is someone to pay for the cleanup after a disaster. One can not claim it is someone else’s problem. Should the citizens of Lac-Megantic be the ones who have to shoulder the cost of the cleanup?
This is what environmental laws are about making sure that there is someone to pay for the cleanup after a disaster. One can not claim it is someone else’s problem. Should the citizens of Lac-Megantic be the ones who have to shoulder the cost of the cleanup?
Ronnie: Agreed. Yet oil and coal are bad. Therefore all involved must be punished. I doubt if a train carrying windmill parts did the same damage to a town that the government would go after the windmill manufacturer.
This charge to the oil broker is totally insane. Let’s say you are a manufacturer and you ship your products on a common carrier using public highways (as by the way each and every manufacturer in the US and Canada does!). Now let’s assume that common carrier, an 18-wheeler broadsides a building as it travels though a small town. Is it the responsibility of the common carrier or you, the manufacturer to pay for damages done to the building? I don’t think there is a court anywhere that would lay blame on you, as the manufacturer. Same deal here. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.
If World Fuel is partially at fault, then they should be held responsible. However, at this point, the investigation is far from finished. Finish the investigation first, then send the bill where it belongs.
Well, the clean-up has to be done now, and very likely the only way for the cost to be paid any time soon is for the Province of Quebec to handle it. Ultimately, once all the facts are known and all liable parties are identified (which will certainly include the MM&A, and may include others), then those parties and/or their insurers will be held financially responsible.
If the railroad and the company that had their product shipped is responsible then so is the fire department that came out to put out the engine fire that happened just before they train ranway.
At the end of the day it was the fault of the railroad and its employee in charge of the train, not anyone else therefore they should be soley responsible, how is it a customers fault that some slack excuse for an engineer didnt do his job properly?
Tell World Fuel to stop the foolishness.
Get out the checkbook. A lot of people lost their lives and much property damage.
Its called Risk. Get it???
Someone call World Fuel a Whambulance!!!
Someone call World Fuel a Whambulance!!!