The importance of drafting strong and enforceable indemnities when seeking to limit a party’s potential liability for environmental risks

02. November 2020 0
On December 6, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada held two former owners of an Ontario pulp and paper mill liable for the costs of remediating and maintaining a waste disposal site located on the property. The two former owners, Resolute and Weyerhaeuser, are successors of the companies that abandoned the waste site decades prior. ...