[CPEO-BIF] "Olympic site not alone in needing a cleanup"

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Olympic site not alone in needing a cleanup
The Toronto Star
http://thestar.com
May 29, 2001


Toronto's bid for the Olympics put the focus on the city's derelict land, the
contaminated industrial "brownfields" that blot our neighbourhoods. 

The biggest of these brownfields, the Portlands, is to be the site of the
Olympics and its cleanup costs are hardly likely to stand in the way of
restoring the land for the 2008 Games. 

But Greater Toronto has some 4,500 hectares of contaminated lands, the
equivalent of 30 High Parks. What of the other less-Olympian sites? 

Last fall, then Municipal Affairs Minister Tony Clement set up a panel to
advise on some of the crunchy issues that have prevented redevelopment. Who
should pay for the cleanup of properties whose owners often have long-since
abandoned them? What should the limits be on future liability. Who should
assume it?

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