The MMA is ordered to pay$ 1 Million, but will pay?

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Caroline Lepage

Monday, February 5, 2018 12:31

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LAC-MÉGANTIC | Ottawa may have difficulty in reaching over the half of the fine of$ 1 Million imposed at the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic to the explosion of a train that has spilled over 4.7 million litres of oil in lac Mégantic.

The MMA was sentenced Monday at the courthouse in Lac-Mégantic to the maximum fine of$ 1 Million under the fisheries Act. This money was to be used to restore the lac Mégantic and the Chaudière river, contaminated by the oil spill after the explosion of a train in July 2013.

However, the company is in bankruptcy. The MMA had, however, set aside $ 400,000 are still available.

“The balance of $ 600,000, I understand that they have a time limit to pay, but we do not kid ourselves, there have been few expectations,” told Me Donald Barnabas, of the Crown.

The driver of the oil train that exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Thomas Harding, pleaded guilty to a criminal charge on the security of the trains and will serve six months of detention at home.

Until 5 may, it will be forbidden to leave his home. During the following three months, he will be able to make a few trips in a very strict framework, which will allow him, among other things, the transportation of her mother at Richmond, and to go grocery shopping.

Mr. Harding has failed to perform an effectiveness test to comply with the immobilizing its oil train in Nantes, france, July 5, 2013.

Five bosses guilty

Five bosses at the MMA, Robert Grindrod, Lynne Labonte, Keneth Strout, John Demaître and Michael Horan, have pleaded guilty to the same charges on the Law of railway safety.

The bosses will pay the maximum fine of $ 50,000 each, which will be paid to Fund Future Lac-Mégantic, to assist the reconstruction of the city centre.

“It is the good news today. We are happy to be able to adapt these amounts to the real needs that we saw here in Lac-Mégantic, ” said the mayor of Lac-Mégantic, Julie Morin.

The charges have not been deducted against Richard Labrie, who was managing the rail traffic during the night incendiary. Therefore, it has been bleached.