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Catalyst developer nailed by Alberta Environment Ministry BRIAN KIERAN CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
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Austin Morgan and Gurjot Mann increase the Mirror’s Pennies for Presents kitty by $110.
A priceless pair of copper magnets It wouldn’t seem like Christmas at the Mirror if we didn’t get a visit from Austin Morgan and his pal Gurjot Mann.
When it comes to supporting the newspaper’s Pennies for Presents campaign these two are copper magnets. Morgan has
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been collecting pennies for eight years. Mann joined in about three years ago. Continued on A3
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The Alberta Environment Ministry has slapped a contamination remediation order on Edmontonbased businessman Harold Jahn, the developer who is currently purchasing the contaminated Catalyst pulp mill site here in Campbell River. Ministry spokesperson Jacalyn Ambler says there have been numerous communications with Jahn about groundwater contamination at the site of a shutdown chemical plant in Lamont County northeast of Edmonton, but “no voluntary resolution was forthcoming.” Lamont County Chief Administrative Officer Al Harvey describes Jahn as a developer who “likes to leave his options open.” The unfolding contamination drama on Jahn’s Alberta property has potential parallels to what’s happening at the contaminated Catalyst property that Jahn has been in the process of purchasing for $8.6 million since mid-August. On Dec. 7 the Alberta government ordered Jahn’s company, Heartland Industrial Park Inc., to install a groundwater recovery system on the site of the defunct Bruderheim sodium chlorate chemical plant and to develop a plan to decommission and reclaim the plant.
The government says it tried unsuccessfully to resolve the situation for two years before issuing the order. The plant hasn’t operated since 2006. Ambler tells the Mirror that contamination has been a problem on the site since the plant was built in 1990. “In the start up phase chlorate, chloride and hexavalent chromium leached into the groundwater. In 1993, a groundwater recovery system was put in operation and it ran until 2010. “Although the plant has not been in service since 2006, a functioning groundwater recovery system is required to ensure onsite contaminated groundwater is removed and treated. The recovery system in place has not been operational since Continued on A3
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