”In the coming months, all these people will have to meet with the experts in order to determine the amount of their share according to the TCE-related problems they have had to face. The global amount for compensation will certainly climb to several hundred million dollars,” says the lawyer.
On January 29, Radio-Canada broadcast an Enquête report on the Shannon tainted water situation. The crew had uncovered a study dating back from 1978, produced for the National Defense and the Canadian Ministry of the Environment, which indicated that “since 1944, the laboratories of the Valcartier Military Research Centre have been dumping their toxic waste, including TCE, in a pond that had been dug out of the sand.”
“I’m amazed that we have to go to the courts and that it will cost a fortune, when we already know who is responsible for this contamination. This is just a bad case of pride,” says Marie-Paule Spieser, President of the Shannon Residents Group. She is looking forward to leaving the city, but she does wonder who will want to buy her house, when everybody knows the water table has been contaminated.
Residents Are Preparing their Class-Action Lawsuit
- Publié le 30 Janvier 2009
- Publié le 7 Mai 2010
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Amélie Deschênes
Already 1 300 people have joined the class-action lawsuit. Lawyer Charles Veilleux feels that this number should rise to 2 000, since it will always be time for people having lived in Shannon between 1953 and 2003 and having suffered TCE-related problems to join.
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