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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - B1.
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Group wants to probe g gas
station sites for pollution

_. By SARAH A.
_ ZIMMERMAN »

A’. TERRACE. MAN
wants to know how. many.
_ contaminated sites have been.
_ Sold off by gas companies in °
the region, leaving the new _

"Owners to deal. with costly,

-_ :owner Giannino. Pretto has . .

’ Shell to clean up’ the: con-

‘clean up. o
Murray Hamer says: the :
‘trouble’ local gas station ~

experienced“ trying to .get ~

Business

~ Insurance
Wightman & Smith

Insurance

‘tamination on the. site. he ~
-bought from them in 1982.
» is just one example of a-~
problem he believes is much :
‘wider spread. |
—“{'d like to start a-volun-
‘teer group to look at each i in-
‘dividual site that Shell used
“to own and ask questions,”
-Hamer says. : " 2 oe 7
:__ He believes some former JESS HANSEN, left; and “Murray Hamer want to put up more’ signs suchas this -
Bas" station sites in Terrace one across the region urging a boycott of Shell products stemming, from: a dispute, at
‘may have beett sold off be- “between the comipany and local gas station owner Giannino Pretto.:" ‘

-fore any. environmental Te- 7 “SARAH A. ‘ZIMMERMAN PHOTO i
_ mediation: had been done. :

‘He points to the property the. ~

“Lakelse Ave. Tim Hortons"
“now Sits on.as an example.
~ ‘It had once been the location

of a Shell gas station:

~ While he wants to target
former Shell sites he wants "

‘any, — contamination
might be on other former gas |

‘Station sites as well. a
-’:He has started. an ad hoc

aroun. of people who. sup-

port Pretto and hopes. to
raise money to pay for legal .

there °

advice. mE,
He believes Shell should
be-responsible for any envi-

ronmental remediation work-"~
that needs to be done: at Pret-.

to’s Kalum St.-Shell station

biy Pretto 6 out.

.Pretto. has ‘been unable’ :

“to secure financing to Oper-
‘ate the business ‘since 2001
when : soil .

-. contamination’
_ was discovered at the site. -

4645 Lakelse Avenue, Terrace (250) 638-1424

-www.terraceinsurance.com

to also investigate what, if or the.company should just

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