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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9,, 2012
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RIBFEST FUN
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DIGGING IN: Benisse Ferolin, 7, sinks her teeth into some ribs during the Scarborough Rotary Ribfest at Thomson Park on Friday. For more photos at the 11th annual ribfest, which wrapped up on Simcoe Day Monday, please see page 21.
Exposed pipeline in Rouge to be covered MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Canadian energy giant Enbridge says it will permanently cover a section of oil pipeline that has been exposed on a bank of the Rouge
River in Scarborough for more than two years. The company’s promise to start work at the site within two weeks came days after Environmental Defence, a non-profit group, warned a spill from the pipeline could “per-
manently damage” a future Rouge National Urban Park. Adam Scott, a spokesperson for the group, said he was checking the Enbridge Line 9 pipeline, which carries oil from Montreal to Sarnia, Ontario. “I just happened to find the
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pipe sitting in the river, completely exposed,” he said. T h e To r o n t o a n d Re g i o n Conservation Authority which owns most land in Rouge Park, became aware in late 2009 erosion had >>>ENVIRONMENTAL, page 3
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to restore or replace the shuttered Guild Inn. The City of Toronto has budgeted millions for improvements to the grounds, but those projects will be done only after another deal is struck to tear down the derelict hotel building and replace it with a restaurant and banquet hall. Heise has high hopes such a deal can be announced after the city issues a request for proposals this fall and approves a partnership with a private operator. “Then the place would live again,” she said.
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