effluent charge

tipping fee [ tip fee | gate fee ]

environmental tax [ charge for polluting product | discharge tax | ecotax | energy tax | environmental charge | green tax | tax on CO2 | tax on polluting product | Environmental charge(STW) ]

tippage fee

chute | shoot | tip chute | tip shoot

hydrocarbon spill [ oil spill | oil spillage | petroleum hydrocarbon spill | petroleum spill ]

duty or tax or fee rate description | duty/tax/fee rate

quasi-fiscal charge [ licence fee | parafiscal charge | television licence fee ]

charges for use of infrastructure [ airport charge | airport due | airport fee | airport tax | dock due | embarkation tax | harbor due | harbor fee | harbour due | harbour fee | port charge | port due | port tax ]

The proponent of the project in 1989-1990 was able to convince the town councils of the day from Kirkland Lake, Larder Lake and Englehart to sign on as willing hosts for a proportion of the tipping fee.

Mr. John Stephenson: There was an energy-from-waste plant at Victoria Hospital in London, where I know they ran into rough times, because the contract they signed for the tipping fee committed them to a tipping fee that was too low to make the operation economic.

If you're asking me, should the Canadian taxpayer welcome the shouldering of some burden of a catastrophic spill as a form of thank you for many years of royalties and jobs created, I'd say no. I wouldn't characterize it as a form of thank you, but Mr. Cullen characterized it as a subsidy, and I wouldn't see the taxpayer.Where we've had 60 years of royalty return, jobs, economic prosperity, and a clear, defined safety regime where there's no fault of the company in terms of some spill, in the worst-case scenario, I wouldn't characterize it as a subsidy as much as I'd dare to characterize it as a thank you.

Would it not then translate that after 50, 60, 70 years, in the unlikely event of a spill occurring, that the Canadian taxpayer, who has enjoyed 50, 60 years of benefit, wouldn't have some vested interest in putting some of that return into making sure a cleanup was done effectively and properly, and that it shouldn't exclusively and entirely befall the company where there's no fault of the company?