New Brunswick Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Gilles LePage, announced that his government had completed the second phase of inspections of retail fuel outlets across New Brunswick, with poor results. Of the 91 locations inspected, 47 were found to have breached environmental rules.
New Brunswick is a province of Canada, bordering Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to the west.
“Non-compliances were observed at 47 sites and consisted mainly of unlicensed sites, failure to display owner/operator information, use of hold-open devices, unregistered tanks and improper storage tank labelling,” said Minister LePage in a news release.
“These findings prompted enforcement actions by the department, including the issuance of tickets and compliance plans. Additional inspections will continue.”
The inspections were ordered by the province in response to a massive diesel spill at Murray’s Irving on Beardsley Road in Woodstock, discovered in December 2024.
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