Chicago Tribune: Kane settles suit with Shell over tainted soil
“Kane County has agreed to accept $350,000 from Shell Pipeline Co. LP, of Houston, in exchange for dropping the firm from a million-dollar lawsuit filed a year ago by the county in the firm’s disposal of contaminated soil…”
Wednesday 14 Sept 2005
By William Presecky
Tribune staff reporter
Published September 14, 2005
Kane County has agreed to accept $350,000 from Shell Pipeline Co. LP, of Houston, in exchange for dropping the firm from a million-dollar lawsuit filed a year ago by the county in the firm’s disposal of contaminated soil at a county-owned landfill in Geneva.
The settlement was approved Tuesday by the Kane County Board after a closed-door session discussing the litigation.
An environmental engineering firm involved with Shell’s efforts to dispose of some benzene-laced soil from a 1980s spill site in Kankakee County remains the lone defendant in the lawsuit.