Brink Launches Suit Against BCR Properties
Thursday, February 21, 2013 @ 3:59 AM
Prince George, B.C.- John A. Brink Investments has filed a civil suit against BCR Properties over a property in the BCR site in Prince George.
The petition says Brink Investments entered into a lease agreement with the defendant on property in the BCR industrial site in mid 2005. The plan was to develop a mill that could handle beetle killed wood for the production of finger joint products or pellets. Brink’s petition says it was estimated the mill operation would require about 100 acres.
The suit alleges BCR Properties did not disclose to Brink Investments that there had been a landfill on the site , the contamination that existed on the site, and that false site profiles has been provided.
According to the petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court, of the 100 acres covered by the lease agreement, only 60 can be used because the remaining 40 are part of the contaminated landfill. According to Brink’s petition, it would cost more than $14 million dollars to clean and remediate the site.
Brink Investments is seeking general, special and punitive damages, costs, and any other relief the Court may deem just.
Comments
Good on Brink…go for it. Hope you win.
curious … why has it taken 7+ years to reach this state of resolution? .. or is just coincidence that we are only weeks away from a provincial election and this will likely end up on the desk of an NDP government? .. hmmmm .. something is up, time will tell the rest of the story
I am curious where the parcel of land is located. There is little land in the south industrial that isn’t contaminated. It’s common knowledge to those that have lived in the city for as long as Mr. Brink has.
I believe it is the old Netherlands site.
I think that you are right lonesome sparrow.
It’s the stupid banks that make the contamination an issue. Some of them won’t finance until the clean-up is done and the clean-up costs are absolutely prohibitive. My spouse and I were lucky to find a bank (and it’s one of the big ones) to finance our building purchase even though the land is contaminated. billyinpg, my spouse and I have been here forever (hence the bornandbred tag) and we did not know those sites were contaminated. I question how contaminated the land is and why the government (Min. of Environment?) doesn’t make anyone clean up. In our case, the contamination supposedly goes back through a number of owners. It is very dangerous to make businesses pay for the deeds of others. By that I mean, that those parcels of land won’t get sold because business can’t afford to do the clean-up. The clean-up price for us was twice the cost of the building. WTF would we have bought then? I just don’t get why the clean up needs to be done NOW when it has existed in a lot of those parcels for a long time.
I think that the clean up is part and parcel of the original BC rail lease. If you lease the land then you are responsible for the clean-up when you discontinue the business.
So it seems who ever had the land originally is responsible for clean up. If they somehow got out of this responsibility then it would appear that it is being passed on the new purchasers. Who knows??
Mattinpg you have a one tracked mind. If anything you should be happy that any politician is trying to get things going. Rather be criticized for trying something than for not doing anything at all.
Make CN pay for the clean up. That rail site belongs to CN now doesn’t it? Foist the bill on them.
I think the taxpayer should pay for the clean up.
The rules are that all contamination on the site must be disclosed to the purchaser, and that the company that contaminated the property is responsible for all cleanup.
As for why it took so long or the timing who knows.. could be they where doing some work and ran into something ugly, or there was a odor… hard to say.. but its needs to be cleaned up .
FYI never buy any land near Husky…lol
Contamination sites disclosed to CN before purchase? Maybe Basi & Virk might know.
Actually, BCR Properties has nothing to do with CN Rail. It stayed a separate entity after the take over.I
It’s the old Netherlands site, was their waste wood and misc dump site for years. NOM was bought by Canfor The area belongs to BCR Properties
CN has nothing to do with it, it’s an issue with BCRProp, the question is how did Canfor dodge that bullet.
The next question is why did BCRProp put that road and services in the back of the old NOM site PG Log Sort property a few years ago?
Big investment for a few logging and lumber trucks
Wasnt that a time and material job for IDL?
How close is IDL tied in with the head of BCRProp?
A great out of site-out of mind job ……..that us tax payers of PG now maintain
But that’s too far back in history for most of us to remember…….4 -5 years
ImFrank,
It was actually about 7 years ago, the rumor than was there was going to be a container operation back there. Obviously nothing has happened.
Probably a bigger concern is the old lumber dip tank area at NOM rather than the land fill now in question. Upper Fraser had a dip tank also. Out of sight, out of mind.
It will probably boil down to who signed the site profile for BCR Properties. Somebody gonna getta hurd real bad.
All BS aside the lumber market and world economy took a turn for the worse and many small mills were forced to shut down permanently. So was this a environmental issue or financial decision? I guess he looking for more handouts from the tax payer
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