June 24, 2009 - Order re: 4th Amended Statement of Claim - Wagners

(iii) Have lived within the Class Boundaries for a minimum of three (3)
continuous years during the Class Period; or
(iv)
If not of the age of majority have lived within the Class Boundaries
for 50% or more of their lives or for three (3) continuous years
whichever is less.
(aa) (t) "Steel Plant" means the facility within the Class Boundaries at which steel
was manufactured until 2000, the location of which is located within the
red boundaries shown on Schedule "A" hereto.
(bb) (u)"Steel Works" means the Steel Plant and the Coke Ovens.
(cc) (v) "Steel Works Defendants" means Canada, Nova Scotia, Ispat Sidbec,
Hawker Siddeley, and Sydney Steel Corporation.
(dd) (w)"Sydney Tar Ponds" means the former tidal flats adjacent to Sydney
Harbour at the mouth of Muggah Creek where the runoff from the Coke
Ovens Brook and other proximate watercourses or brooks has
accumulated, which is marked as “Muggah Creek”, “North Pond” and
“South Pond” on Schedule "B" hereto.
(ee) (x)"SYSCO" means the Defendant Sydney Steel Corporation.
(ff) (y) "Tar Ponds Contaminants" means the contaminants that have
accumulated in the Sydney Tar Ponds, including oils, heavy metals
(including lead, arsenic and cadmium), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's),
and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH's, including benzo[a]pyrene,
benzchphenanthrene, benz(a)anthracene, a benzfluoranthene isomer, a
bezfluoranthrene isomer, and clolanthrene).
I. OVERVIEW
2. For many years, Sydney, Nova Scotia was home to a steel plant, and coke ovens
and by products operations that operated in the heart of the city with no
emissions controls. Throughout that period, those operations spewed hundreds
of thousands of tonnes of Contaminants into Sydney's air, water and soil.
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