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An aerial view of the sprawling Mobil complex, at Needhams Point before the refinery ceased to exist. (FP)

By Barry Alleyne | Sun, January 29, 2012 - 12:07 AM

Fiton is ready to fight.

The Canadian-registered remediation company which has been waiting almost two years for Government to sign a contract both parties agreed to in 2010 to clean up the former site of the Mobile Oil Refinery, will be heading to the Supreme Court in an effort to make the state honour a BDS$64 million contract.

It will be the second time the company will be forced to the law courts in an effort to garner action from Government regarding the site, which over an eight-year period has become a major environmental risk, with crude oil above and below the surface migrating to other areas along Barbados’ West Coast on the Needham’s Point peninsula.

Attorney for Fiton Technologies Corporated, Ralph Thorne, QC, told the SUNDAY SUN they would again be suing Government for breach of contract. Their legal course would actually be a resumption of action taken in 2008, but which was paused when the new contract was agreed to.

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Posted by J. Payne 3 months, 3 weeks ago: I had thought this parcel of land would have been a good spot to put Ocean Park. It would be close to the sea so it could have used natural sea water, it is next to the Hilton which could have acted like an anchor market. Ocean Park was placed too far in land, far away from the primary tourist belt, and far away from easy to filter actual sea water. The big tanks don’t look nice next to the hotel from the balconies but a water park would like better. Not sure Ocean Park could have made a land swap with these big oil tanks for prime beach front property in the south coast tourist belt, but the land will need heavy heavy cleaning before putting any water park there now.