Canada Drops Pursuit of Fine in Fatal Lac-Megantic Rail Disaster

Aug. 9, 2018, 9:38 PM UTC

Canada is no longer pursuing C$600,000 ($460,000) in environmental fines from a rail company involved in a 2013 train explosion that killed 47 people in rural Quebec.

Montreal Maine & Atlantic Canada Co. pleaded guilty in February to polluting Lac-Megantic and the Chaudiere River, a violation of Canada’s Fisheries Act, and paid C$400,000 ($307,000) of a C$1 million ($767,000) fine at the time. Fuel and other substances entered the waterways after a train owned by the company exploded in the town of Lac-Megantic on July 6, 2013.

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