The Old Regina Imperial Oil Refinery Contamination Timeline

• The Regina Imperial Oil Refinery (IOR) was built;

• The Calgary Imperial Oil Refinery shuts down;

• The IOR shuts down;

• The City of Regina makes the mistake of purchasing the entire IOR site without any environmental cautions or conditions;

• Half the site was sold to the Dairy Producers Cooperative Creamery and rezoned for the construction of a new creamery;

• The Diary Producers completes the construction of the creamery and distribution centre;

• The Adams Street Commercial subdivision of 12 lots was created at the south end of the old IOR property;

• Engineer Reports indicates the potential for entrapped gas, buried ducts, pipelines and tanks containing flammable and explosive liquids throughout the area;

• The Dairy sold the last 4 of its Adam Street lots for a mere $1,250 per lot, compared to other similar one acre lots which sold for in excess of $300,000 per lot;

• The City of Regina commissioned O’Connor and Associates to prepare a Phase 1 ESA Report on the entire area;

• Based on the O’Connor Report the Minister of the Environment specifically requests the City of Regina and Imperial Oil initiate a complete Phase II ESA relative to the entire area. THIS HAS NOT BEEN DONE;

• The City of Regina initiates a quasi Phase II ESA on the open area north of the City Transit Center. The Phase II study was limited in scope to report on soil conditions to a depth of one meter. At this depth, the study was simply testing the backfill material that was used to cover the property. It was not to depths of 7 to 10 meters necessary to determine the extent of soil contamination from the IOR;

• Calgary city and Imperial Oil move ahead with a $27 million plan to clean up and monitor the company’s old refinery site in southeast Calgary. The provincial government signed off in 2014 on a new risk management plan for the lands, which covered an area south and west of the intersection of the Bow River and Ogden Rd. SE;

• The Minister of Environment recommended no further development can take place within the area surrounding the Regina Food Bank;

• Mayor Michael Fougere announces the construction of the new $30.1-million, 60,000-square-foot bus repair facility which will be attached to the current transit operation centre on Winnipeg Street, replacing the existing 70-year-old building on Albert Street;

• The construction of the new transit facility repair centre digs up contaminated soil and pipes from the old Imperial Oil Refinery further indicating significant soil contaminants;