An Edmonton company was fined $10,000 last week for improperly documented hazardous waste that they attempted to deliver to the Villeneuve sewage transfer station.
Canessco Services was handed the fine last week for failing to prepare a manifest for a load of liquid waste they brought to the transfer station in December 2008.
Carrie Sancartier, a spokesperson for Alberta Environment, said the load the company brought to the station was tested and found to contain lead.
In high concentrations, lead is considered hazardous waste and the company had failed to prepare any of the necessary documentation for the transfer.
Under provincial regulations, a manifest is necessary so copies can be provided to the receiver of the waste — in this case, the transfer station.
Those copies are also supposed to be forwarded onto Alberta Environment so the agency can be confident the waste was properly disposed of.
Sancartier said the charges against the company were laid in April 2009.
The sentence was handed down as part of a creative sentencing arrangement. Of the total, $8,000 is going to be forwarded to the Edmonton Public School Board for a hazardous waste storage project and $2,000 is going to be paid as a fine.
