Here is an excellent update on this issue from my colleague MLA Rob Fleming,
June 30th, 2015
Earlier
this year, my colleague Lana Popham (MLA Saanich South) and I organized a
well-attended public forum on home heating oil spills. Recent media reports
confirm that this is a huge problem for greater Victoria homeowners. In many
cases, the risk is posed by the unknown presence of backyard underground home
heating oil tanks that were improperly decommissioned.
Victoria
still has a large number of homes heated by oil - natural gas service was only
introduced to the island in 1992. The number of home heating oil leaks is
likely increasing as the tanks (both buried and above-ground) age.
Clean-up
costs for homeowners can be massive, in several cases they have exceeded $100,000.
I have constituents who suffered through exhausting and expensive legal
proceedings for remediation and recovery of costs.