Passenger service on the E&N shut down in 2011 because of the poor condition of the rails.
The Snaw-naw-as First Nation is taking the Island Corridor Foundation and the federal government to court to force a cleanup of contaminated soil and removal of old equipment from a former railway right-of-way.
In March of last year, senior governments announced that the right-of-way would be returned to the Snaw-naw-as nation. Edwards, whose nation began to remove old ties and the railway tracks this week, said the lands “must be remediated to a state that is acceptable to the Snaw-naw-as.” It notes that railroad ties are usually treated with chemicals such as creosote, and adds that the natural surface of the land was damaged and water patterns changed. Topsoil was removed, ditches were excavated, debris was deposited, land was compacted and rail materials including ties, spikes and hardware were abandoned.
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