Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says the city has filed a claim in federal court against the owner of a vessel that spilled fuel off the city's coast in 2015.
Robertson says three years after the MV Marathassa spilled 2,700 litres of bunker fuel into English Bay, the city still hasn't been paid back for about $550,000 it spent on response efforts.
The claim, filed last month and announced today, is the latest step in the city's efforts to get compensation for its role in the response.
Robertson says the city has sought repayment through the federal government's Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund, but has only been promised compensation for 27 per cent of its costs.
Robertson calls it "ridiculous" that taxpayers are still footing the bill for the cleanup. He says the city doesn't have faith it will be protected in the case of a more devastating spill from tankers carrying diluted bitumen from Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline.
The federal claim against the ship owners is for damages, interest and court costs related to the spill.
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