VANCOUVER, B.C. CN Rail has been fined $45,000 for running trains in Surrey, B.C., without properly listing the dangerous cargo they carried, the Canadian Press reports.
The company pled guilty to violating one count of the Railway Safety Act while six other charges were dropped.
In July 2007, Transport Canada inspectors put the railway on notice after they found several cases where CN trains handled dangerous goods and failed to have the proper paperwork, including a complete list of cars and shipping documents.
The charges were laid after followup inspections found there were still some trains running with inaccurate lists.
Last year, CN was fined $1.8 million after pleading guilty to two derailments in 2005, including one that caused a massive fish kill when sodium hydroxide was spilled into the Cheakamus River near Squamish, B.C.
The other derailment dumped a load of bunker oil into Wabamum Lake west of Edmonton.
(This item was distributed Jan. 22, 2010, by The Canadian Press.)
