>Goodness knows how they could go 4-5 years only to discover that the planned remediation, which they were only set to start putting in place in July of last ye

>Goodness knows how they could go 4-5 years only to discover that the planned remediation, which they were only set to start putting in place in July of last year, was not allowed under their environmental regulations. Because what is and isn't allowed depends a lot on whether your paperwork crosses the bureaucrat's desk just before lunch on Monday or just after lunch on Friday. They probably had all sorts of preliminary oks and then got denied at the 11th hour because internal political winds changed in whatever office they were dealing with.