Swift Current resident frustrated by mess left behind after transport truck crash

Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 17, 2025 2:27 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

More than a period aft a transport motortruck went implicit an embankment near Swift Current, N.L., a nonmigratory of the assemblage says she's frustrated the cleanup of the clang tract has stalled.

The motortruck — owned by Ontario-based Ollie Transport — was removed successful the aforesaid day, but debris and diesel person been near down and adjacent the ocean, says nonmigratory Nancy Barrington.

Despite archetypal attempts to cleanable up the site, she said it was never finished.

"All of the debris from the motortruck is inactive there. I mean there's windshields, tires, each the contents from wrong the motortruck are inactive adjacent to my property," Barrington told CBC Radio's The St. John's Morning Show.

"It conscionable seems I've been getting the runaround arsenic to who should beryllium cleaning this up. It's truly frustrating."

CBC News asked Ollie Transport for an interview. The institution did not respond.

Barrington said contractors were initially progressive successful the cleanup and remediation of the contaminated soil. She said 1 of the contractors told her the cleanup stopped either due to the fact that the trucking institution liable for the spill didn't person security connected the motortruck oregon that the security was inadequate for the cleanup.

In effect to the spill, she said Petroleum and Environmental Services Inc. installed a roar successful the h2o to incorporate the spilled substance until it was cleaned up.

"Since cipher has been here, the roar has ruptured and debris has been coming retired of that and going into the formation and onto the roadway down by my grandfather's wharf," said Barrington.

The roar was removed implicit the weekend, she said.

Company told to resume work

The Department of Digital Government and Service N.L. said it has been successful interaction with the institution and told them they person to cleanable the tract and remediate the spill, a work that's nether the Environmental Protection Act, which besides includes hiring a registered tract nonrecreational to facilitate the cleanup.

"The polluter began the cleanup process, nevertheless the section became alert that enactment astatine the tract was not progressing arsenic expected," said a department statement to CBC News.

"Earlier this week, the polluter was directed to resume the cleanup successful a timely manner, and the section volition proceed to show advancement astatine the tract to guarantee the enactment is completed."

Barrington said she has spoken with her MHA — Jeff Dwyer — astir the situation, who past presented the problem at the House of Assembly.

Her section work territory committee has besides written a ceremonial missive to Minister of Environment and Climate Change Lisa Dempster, she added.

"They are gathering to get things acceptable up and trying to get things connected the go, I conjecture is the amended word for it, but there's inactive thing done since past Thursday," said Barrington.

The clang has had a antagonistic biology impact, she said, pointing to the water successful beforehand of her location that is simply a salmon tally arsenic good as home to wildlife similar otters, ducks, loons, seagulls and eagles.

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