A Court of Queen’s Bench justice in Calgary has found that an Imperial Oil Limited pipeline leak exposed a portion of a southern Alberta family’s cattle herd to hydrocarbon contamination.
The Ball family, which owns the Ball Ranch near Bragg Creek west of Calgary, launched a lawsuit against Imperial Oil in 2004. The dispute began in the summer of 2002, when Agnes Ball, 72, returned from a weekend vacation to find a huge pit dug near a sour gas pipeline running through land where some of her cattle grazed. The leased land has been in the family since the 1940s.
That year,…
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