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Case summary: |
On August 21, 2014 Officers conducted a PERC inspection at Executive Cleaners located at #4-301 2nd Ave North Saskatoon, SK. Officers went into the downstairs portion of this facility and found 6 - 10L drums of what appeared to PERC waste sitting outside of secondary containment. Officers took samples from each of the six containers. Officers obtained a warned statement from business owner Donald PATTISON who informed officers that the barrels downstairs contained PERC and had been down there for 3 years. The Report of Analysis from the EC lab determined that all six barrels contained PERC ranging from 503,000 ppm to 24,600 ppm in the 6 barrels. After a review of waste manifests obtained under a Production Order and from Annual Reports submitted by Executive Cleaners to Environment Canada, Officers have reasonable grounds to believe that the waste residue observed during the inspection on August 21, 2014 had been at the facility for a period longer than 12 months and/or that at the time of the last reported waste removal the owner failed to remove all waste from this facility. On January 21, 2016 Don PATTISON and his company, 610969 Saskatchewan Ltd, were charged for violations of the Tetrachloroethylene (Use in Dry Cleaning and Reporting Requirements) Regulations. On July 6, 2016 Don Pattison and 610969 Saskatchewan Ltd. carrying on business as Executive Cleaners each pled guilty to violating subsection 9(1) of the Tetrachloroethylene (Use in Dry Cleaning and Reporting Requirements) Regulations and were each fined $5000 for a total of $10,000. Mr. Pattison was given until the end of January 2017 to pay the fine and all money will be directed to the EDF.
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Charges: |
610969 Saskatchewan Ltd. and Donald L. Pattison were each charged one count of subsection 9(1) of the Tetrachloroethylene (Use in Dry Cleaning and Reporting Requirements) Regulations. Between the 29th day of December, 2011 and the 29th day of December, 2012, in the City of Saskatoon, 610969 Saskatchewan Ltd. carrying on business as Executive Cleaners and Don Pattison as an owner or operator of a dry-cleaning machine did not have all residue transported to a waste management facility at least once every twelve months, contrary to subsection 9(1) of the Tetrachloroethylene (Use in Dry Cleaning and Reporting Requirements) Regulations, thereby committing an offence under subsection 272.1(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.
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