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ROBERT Wy MOORE. picks apart the canopy at it the former Kalum St. Shell gas station. Shell purchased the prop-

ory back from Giannino Pretto recently and is decommissioning it as a gas station.

(MARGARET SPEIRS PHOTO

ell station decommissioned

SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN

SHELL Canada i is in the process of winterizing the former

Gonvenience Store at the Kalum’ St: gas: station and is

; decommissioning the site.
3 That involves. taking down all ‘signage and erecting a
fence around the property. Shell Canada recently purchased

the property and business back from Giannino Pretto, the -

gwner of the gas station since 1982.
se In 2001 contaminated soil was found on the property and
i€ took two closures and five: years to come to an agreement
with the oil giant over who is responsible, for the contami-
. gated site.

Last week, workers began removing all of the Shell sig-
hage on the property in anticipation of the Permanent closure
of the location.

“, “What they would have seen is the site being de-identi- -

fied. So, that’s to remove ali the Shell branding at the site,”

says company spokesperson Jana Saunderson, adding Shell .

will not be operating, the site. as a gas station in the future.

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“At this time there are no plans to demolish the building.”
~ she added.
Other work at the site includes the removal of the fuel

_pumps and underground tank farm, she said.

Shell has not yet decided'how it will go about- vemediat-

ing the contaminated soil at the location.

“We.don’t [know] at this point largely because we don’ t
have enough information to make those kinds of decision
but we will be conducting some assessment work over the.
next cotiple weeks and that will ‘help us determine longer
term remediation options and the timing,” Saunderson said.

Contaminated. properties can be cleaned up through a

natural process that can take years to accomplish or. it can.

be aggressively remediated by removing all the affected soil .

and replacing it with clean soil. That second option is very —
expensive and often cost prohibitive.

The Kalum St. Shell station is one of.five former gas. sta~

_ tion sites in Terrace that are contaminated and remain va-
cant. Saunderson says Shell actively manages vacant sites

and has plans in place to keep the location safe and tidy. .

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - A13

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The Downtown Merchants Association would like to thank
everyone who helped us raise just over $9,000.00 that
allowed us to adopt two Kermode Spirit Bears for downtown |
Terrace during our “Bear Shares” campaign. Also, thanks

to Standard Radio and-Classic Rock CFNR for putting our. #4
message on the radio. And thanks to the Terrace Standard {
for supporting this worthwhile cause. All proceeds went

to the B.C. Lions Society for Children with Disabilities.

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