Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free july irvings sued for Barge costs Ottawa seeks million for raising sunken Oil vessel by Stephen Thome Canadian press Halifax the Canadian coast guard has filed suit against new Brunswick Irv ing conglomerate for More than million in expenses associated with last years recovery of the sunken Oil Barge Irving it is with considerable disappoint ment that i have to advise that discussions Between the Crown and the ship owner have not been the coast guards Deputy commission Michael said from in keeping with the pollute pay its been Nec Essary to commence Legal proceed Ings to recover the Cost of the a statement of claim for was filed in Federal court in Fredericton just 24 hours before today first anniversary of the barges emergence from the Depths of the Gulf of Lawrence off Prince Edward those named in the suit Are Irving owner of the Irv ing Irving Oil owner of her cargo of Bunker c the Irving company Universal sales and its Irving which was towing the whale when she went Atlantic towing the tugs Irv i gowned the administrator of the federally run ship source Oil pollution under the legislation that created the fund is automatically party to the sunken Oil Barge Irving whale Breaks the surface of the Gulf of Lawrence last july after resting on the Bottom for 26 any Legal proceedings associated with a claim like in which the coast guard alleges negligence by the Irving the coast guard had until today to file a claim against the the including in represents the Federal governments total expenditure in Rais ing the pc Laden which Sank 20 nautical Miles off the islands Cavendish Beach during a storm in two 1992 stud ies indicated leak ing Oil could pose a but Federal authorities we rent told there were pcs on Board the Barge until june the Salvage Job took two culminating july a coast guard lawyer presented the with a Bill in talks began ridiculous for taxpayers to be paying for this shortly we have been unable to reach an agreement on How much they would pay towards the Turner perhaps its possible still to resolve this matter outside the we remain Irving who did not return phone Calls have maintained Treyve already paid by contributing millions to the pollution which was it created until three years after the whale administered under the Canada shipping the pot was intended to Coyer spills inside Canad an which at the time Only extended 12 nautical Miles not 200 As they have since through the magic of compound Irving has said its contrib up photo Tion Over four years of levies on Oil transports is now Worth More than an environmental group applauded yesterdays its supremely ridiculous for tax payers to be paying for this said Mark Butler of the ecology action its the irvings mess and they should be cleaning it after she was the Barge was piggybacked to where dry Dock Crews cleared her of about tonnes of Bunker c and tonnes of nearly pure poly Chlorina de her rusted Hull remains dozens of barrels of contaminated Marine growth were collected from the Salvage a Federal report has said about 73 per cent of the cancer causing pcs that went Down with the Barge were not it said most were Proba Bly dispersed when she new rules of the Road reports not apply to Toyota rav4 2door lease from rav4 259 a Smiths freight with Only financing available for up to 48 months just lets you go your own Way in this rugged Little sport Utility that comes loaded with its also available in a 4door version with full time 4 wheel drive or front wheel rav4 was just voted automobile magazines 1997 automobile of the year and yours is waiting at your Toyota dealer take a test drive soon follow the new rules of the leasing and finance plans ram Toyota credit Canada offers valid on new 1997 models leased and delivered by july and taxes Are includes a maximum of Lor freight s finance at per annul equals per month Lor 48 is Lor a total obligation of based on a 48 month Walkaway lease on rav4 Model Plov Gawith manual transmission with Down payment of or equivalent net first payment and Security Deposit of due on total Cost of lease Purchase option Price of based on a maximum of Ems additional pm charge of per Kmil dealer May Lor Model shown with optional see your Pampa Fng Toyota dealer Lor Toyota credit Utah Loyola dealer is a proud ipod Sui of Canadian speral Toyota around Canada mob Boss deported Toronto a russian mob Kingpin was deported to Moscow yesterday in a move ramp say will slow the expansion of Eastern european organized crime in a Haggard and unshaven Vyacheslav was escorted to Moscow by ramp and two Immi Gration officers and was to be turned Over to russian he is not wanted by police in that coun a terrorist returns Toronto a former Northern Irish terrorist ordered out of Canada in january after an 1 1year Battle to stay was arrested yesterday after being found Back in the Patrick Paddy returned Only five weeks after being deported and apparently used his own British passport to reenter the country without customs officials noticing at the wards Case was one of the longest running and highest profile in the immigration departments Stornoway fixed up Ottawa while Preston Man Ning spends his summer in Alberta plotting Reform party workers Are racing to Complete in renovations to Stornoway before he and his wife Sandra move in in the 34rpom opposition leaders official residence in Rock Cli f f e Park has been vacant since 1993 when prime minister Jean Chretien moved from it to his official Resi Dence at 24 Sussex review allays fears Halifax nobody is dying in Glace because of health care says a government ordered review into recent claims by an area after a detailed review of 70 cases i could find no element of substance to this says Richard head of family Medicine at Dalhousie University in a thorny crime Halifax Cactus collector Patrick Tamlyn is the Halifax area Man is without four of his prize prickly plants after a robbery from the deck of his All the biggest ones Are Tamlyn said arriving Home Early yesterday morning after working a night Tamlyn noticed four Large traditional Cowboy like Cactus were the two biggest plants Are Over two metres he the plants were favourites from his collection of More than 130 audit reveals a mess Edmonton a forensic audit has uncovered evidence of conflict of suspicious financial Deal Ings and bad management on the part of former directors at skua a leaked draft of a report on the audit on the network once owned by Alberta taxpayers was released yesterday by Liberal legislature Mem Ber Laurie the auditors recommend the skua radio foundation and the government sue the former directors for breach of their duties claiming the return of the monies paid to the directors pursuant to their illegal contracts with digging up the past Prince George in Elk Skeleton found during an excavation for a shopping mall expansion dates Back to the Days of Alexander the said a University the which were buried in layers of gravel and Are about years experts the dating was carried out at a lab in Florida with support from the Prince George elks club and the Rocky Mountain Elk eel deaths mystify Fredericton biologists Are mystified by the deaths of eels that have been washing up on the shores of Lake George since Early were not aware of anything sea Sonal that could be affecting the Pam a fisheries Biol Ogist with the natural resources who has a decade of experience with the has never seen or heard of anything like brutality alleged Quebec City police in the provincial capital Are being accused of brutality after a youth underwent surgery for lesions and a blood clot in his the youth was struck three or four times with a flashlight without apparent reason sunday night after police were called to break up a said Guy lawyer for the the boy remains in intensive compiled from Canadian press r ;