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Irving Oil Ltd. has been charged in relation to a diesel spill in Woodstock that was discovered in December 2024, according to a Wednesday news release.<\/p>\n
Grant Enterprises Ltd. has also been charged.<\/p>\n
In mid-December 2024, a Tim Hortons on Beardsley Road, which is beside Murray’s Irving gas station and restaurant,\u00a0reported its water was contaminated<\/a>\u00a0with fuel. That led\u00a0the restaurant and gas station to\u00a0close following the discovery of the\u00a0diesel leak<\/a>\u00a0at the Irving.\u00a0 <\/p>\n The news release from the province said two counts were laid Tuesday under the Clean Environment Act against the two co-accused companies related to the release of a contaminant into the environment and failure to immediately report the leak. <\/p>\n The release said that, according to the act, the fine for the offences could be up to $1 million. <\/p>\n The investigation was a collaboration between the Department of Justice and Public Safety and the Department of Environment and Local Government.<\/p>\n \u201cOur government is firmly dedicated to upholding environmental compliance,\u201d said Environment Minister Gilles LePage said in the news release. <\/p>\n CBC News requested an interview with Public Safety Minister Robert Gauvin on Wednesday afternoon, but one was not provided.<\/p>\n The Beardsley Road Tim Hortons location closed that December despite earlier complaints from customers<\/a> about the smell of fuel in the water and the taste of it in their drinks. <\/p>\n The province confirmed that there had been a spill in January 2025.<\/a> By April of that year, the province confirmed 174,000 litres of diesel had been recovered.<\/a><\/p>\n In Wednesday’s news release, the province said about 180,000 litres of diesel were recovered.<\/p>\n CBC News reached out to Irving Oil on Wednesday afternoon but did not receive a response. <\/p>\n Attempts to reach Grant Enterprises were also unsuccessful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-638275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}