“They started barking about oil spills and tank corrosion and about the environment and helping us solve it.” Of course, there was no problem, it didn’t exist, but CSA wanted money so they conjured a problem that only CSA could solve. Specifically, they started a committee to amend fuel oil tank regulations (B-139 regs).
Committee members paid CSA to be on the fuel oil tank regulations committee and, of course, these committee members were the manufacturers of fuel oil tanks, pumps, piping, etc. So CSA was already rolling in money before amending anything.
“The bastards ruled that everything we’d installed in the last fifty years was unacceptable. Everything to be replaced [with] all new equipment.” That is, all of the existing infrastructure, safe and reliable for decades, was to be replaced at horrific costs, all born by the homeowner, and all to profit the manufacturers who’d paid CSA to change the regulations in the first place.
I used to do UST work in the 90s. Specs/plans, monitoring removals and installations, etc. Spent the summer of 96 in Jersey City removing/replacing the school district’s USTs. The amount of money spent replacing perfectly fine USTs was utterly appalling.
Got done early one day and took the PATH train to visit the Twin Towers. Sad.
Such a dropped ball by the Harper government. Plugged their ears, covered their eyes, sang LALALALACANTHEARYOU and let this rot fester.
The more time goes by, the more I feel Harper really wasted his majority. We got the wheat board killed, the gun registry killed, a 2% GST drop, and … not a whole heck of a lot else, really, to show for it. Lots and lots of things that could’ve been fixed just weren’t even looked at. Trudeau’s going to end up putting a much larger stamp on this country over his majority term than Harper ever did, and that’s not a good thing.
“It’s easy, it’s effective, and it’s been the norm for millions of Canadians for most of the last century.”
Right, and for Ont that is reason enough to replace it with some other Government approved heating source. Having switched to a propane furnace some years ago, I can attest to the simple, effective trouble-free quality of fuel oil heating, and it actually kept the house warm. Problem is Ont environment zealots cannot decide which fuel source is worse; they are against oil, wood and now even natural gas. After years of promoting gas, they now appear to favour electrical heating about the worse possible choice given Ont hydro pricing. What they really wish is that residents would not bother heating homes, think of how much better the environment would be if thermostats were set at 50 f?
I.M.: You are correct . . . . . and that is because the average Canadian voter wants it this way. We, as a country, voted Harper out and Turdeau in and now we are getting what we obviously wanted by so doing.
Do what most other Canadians are doing and spend your day on Facebook and Messenger and on things that require a maximum forward range of thought of a day and a half. Be a happy Canadian whose Government will take care of him/her.
Yes, many people feel that way. Non partisans see that politicians of either side are in it for themselves. So it doesn’t matter who is in charge, you’re getting screwed some way. You get a left wing person in your get big government, you get a right wing person in you get corporatism.
Big gov needs to be fought against but so does big corp. In this case we have big gov (CSA) and big corp (manufacturers) getting together to force higher costs for small businesses now and into the future. The tyrants get more power (CSA) through regulation and more money (manufacturers) through forced replacement and then planned obsolescence to make you replace often when you wouldn’t need to.
“That is, all of the existing infrastructure, safe and reliable for decades, was to be replaced at horrific costs, all born by the homeowner, and all to profit the manufacturers who’d paid CSA to change the regulations in the first place. For those manufacturers, it was a financial windfall.”
Rather a naive assumption by many Canadians that graft and corruption exists in places like Haiti. If it exists in Canada is most likely on Indian Reserves. I can firmly suggest otherwise. Follow the money is what I tell my kids.
Was in the wholesale fuel business for decades. When the underground tank scares came along it was not as tho leaks were not occurring. The environmental results were often grossly overstated. Most of the leaks were actually in the lines not the tanks. Made lots of money pumping tanks out and disposing of the tanks. Environmental remediation firms charged ‘filthy’ fees for doing such work.
The best in BC was doing BCBC work where all underground storage was taken out no matter the condition. If there were no kick backs going on there I will eat my shorts.
One only need look at the gilded palaces where these and other “regulators” practice their craft of accepting graft. CSA, CWB and CBC are Prime examples…
Yeah, I had high hopes for them when they finally achieved their majority. I was mostly roundly disappointed. Squandered opportunities all over the place, most likely in the name of retaining power. Though part of me thinks, “In the US, they’ve been calling it the ‘Deep State’, but here, we just call it the federal civil service.”
I remember thinking that the CSA was a good thing back in the day. I miss my ignorant bliss.
Boy! Wait till Andy “Paris” Scheer hears about this!
“That is, all of the existing infrastructure, safe and reliable for decades, was to be replaced at horrific costs, all born by the homeowner, and all to profit the manufacturers who’d paid CSA to change the regulations in the first place.”
So then, we all switched to propane. Duh.
Incidentally, someone above mentioned we are all supposed to switch to electric now, according to the greenies.
Well yes, that’s what the Ontario Liberals would like. Having gone to all the trouble of jacking up hydro rates to the sky, with the windmills and all, they’d very much like you to heat your house with their very expensive electricity.
Naturally, out in the country people are working on their wood piles in response. If nothing else you can cut down the trees on the front lawn of the local court house and burn that.
Thats exactly what I am doing now (piling hardwood) and I take it as an absolute given that Ont bureaucrats are already working on schemes to outlaw wood burning furnaces and stoves in the very near future. Something about the self-reliance and off the path commercial activities of wood fuel rubs Wynne the wrong way. Next on her to do list after electric autos replace sedans and pickups.
sounds like the scheme going on in my neighborhood.
everyone with a septic systems needs to have it ‘inspected’ by a special inspector, named by the politburo of course.
there isn’t any problem, of course, but for $250 you can have your septic system investigated and probably found to have problems if you don’t show sufficient obedience and subservience to your rulers.
This may be a bigger deal than it appears on first read… I have a sister in Ontario who told me THEY refused to fill her OIL tank last year..I thought she was exaggerating some Municipal issue, or political blow back (she is/was NDP). She is in her 80’s with limited income, big expense
If they have run a corrupt scheme on the whole population of Ontario, everyone has been scammed…Enough here to make the Liberals an electable liability, Federally & Provincially…