Firm fined $18,000 for dead battery shipment
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Updated: July 14, 2009 9:45 AM
A local firm was sentenced Wednesday morning for its role in shipping hundreds of used vehicle batteries overseas without slapping a hazardous content label on the shipping container.
Crown counsel Jane Luke said Allied Salvage & Metals, at 11651 Twigg Pl. on Mitchell Island, pled guilty to unlawfully offering for transport dangerous goods under the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act.
Allied was fined $18,000, of which $9,000 will go toward a safety research fund, Luke said.
She said Allied loaded a 40-foot shipping container with the batteries and oversaw it leaving the premises, and should have labelled it.
Transport Canada conducted a two-year investigation after being alerted to the shipment by Hong Kong port authorities in 2007.
Hong Kong authorities were furious because the used batteries could have caused an explosion aboard a ship had the batteries leaked any acid. Each battery contained between one a two litres of acid.
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