Enron, then WorldCom. Closer to home, there's Nortel and even our parent company, Hollinger Inc. Now corporate corruption seems to have even reared its ugly head in the environment sector. Sure, we expect these things to occur in the sometime murky world of waste management. (The Sopranos has succeeded in making this a mainstream stereotype.) But in the environment industry? A definite twist, some would say, for an industry driven mainly by professionals and companies with a goal to, essentially, make money cleaning up the mess of others. Take Bennett Environmental, for example. For decades, Bennett has used its high temperature thermal processing to treat contaminated soils at its Saint-Ambroise, Quebec facility and another one in Belledune, New Brunswick is nearing completion. In 2002, Bennett announced that it secured the largest cleanup contract ever in the history of the company, worth $200-million to treat approximately 300,000 tons of contaminated (creosote) soil from a site in New Jersey.
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