Supreme Court gives Mobil leave to appeal $10 mln cleanup bill for Auckland land contamination

Supreme Court gives Mobil leave to appeal $10 mln cleanup bill for Auckland land contamination
Fiona Rotherham
By Fiona Rotherham Nov. 23 (BusinessDesk) - The Supreme Court has given Mobil Oil leave to challenge a Court of Appeal decision that made it liable to pay $10 million to publicly-owned Waterfront Auckland for the cleanup of a heavily contaminated area of Wynyard Quarter in downtown Auckland. Mobil Oil leased two properties in Auckland’s waterfront “tank farm” for more than 50 years. The land it was on was found to be heavily contaminated after it ended its leases for the two sites in 2011. While other oil companies as previous tenants...