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For immediate release
November 16, 2007

D. CRUPI & SONS LTD. FINED $50,000 FOR DIESEL FUEL SPILL

TORONTO – D. Crupi & Sons Ltd. has been fined $50,000, plus a victim fine surcharge, after pleading guilty to one count of permitting the discharge of diesel fuel into a creek.

The company utilizes diesel-powered equipment at its recycling yard, located at 477 Brimley Road in Toronto.  

The Court heard that the company had an unapproved diesel oil storage tank in its yard. In the early morning of October 11, 2005, the company’s employees discovered the hose and nozzle of the tank on the ground. Approximately 1,000 to 1,300 litres of diesel fuel had discharged from the tank onto the ground.  Some of the fuel saturated the soil near the tank to a depth of approximately three feet.  A portion of the spilled fuel entered a catch basin at the yard and entered the Knob Hill Creek, a tributary of the Southwest Highland River. 

D. Crupi & Sons Ltd. was charged following an investigation by the Ministry of the Environment’s Investigations and Enforcement Branch.

D. Crupi & Sons Ltd. was found guilty of one count of discharging or permitting the discharge of a material, namely oil, into a watercourse that may have impaired the quality of the water of any waters, contrary to s. 30(1) of the Ontario Water Resources Act. The company was fined $50,000, plus a victim fine surcharge, and given one year to pay.

Justice of the Peace T. Hong heard the case in the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto, Ontario, and imposed sentence on November 15, 2007.

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