ARTICLE 5
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
5.1 Hazardous Substances.
The Tenant will not bring or permit to be brought into the Premises, and will not use in any way, or permit the use of the Premises or any part thereof to either directly or indirectly prepare, produce, use, generate, manufacture, refine, treat, transport, store, maintain, handle, dispose of, transfer, process, release or permit any other dealing with, any Hazardous Substances unless it has received the prior written consent of the Landlord, which may be arbitrarily withheld. Any substance which the Landlord permits the Tenant to treat, store, transfer or dispose of will be dealt with in strict compliance with all applicable laws and environmental permits. The Tenant will not release nor permit the release of any Hazardous Substances into any soil, water courses, culverts, drains or sewers except in accordance with all applicable laws and environmental permits. At its own cost, risk and expense, the Tenant will comply with all applicable laws and environmental permits from time to time in force regulating any dealing with Hazardous Substances by the Tenant to which the Landlord has consented.
5.2 Hazardous Substances Property of Tenant.
If any Hazardous Substance is brought onto the Premises or created upon the Premises during the Term or any extension or renewal thereof, such Hazardous Substance will be the sole and exclusive property of the Tenant and not of the Landlord, notwithstanding the degree of affixation of the Hazardous Substances or the goods containing the Hazardous Substances to the Premises and notwithstanding the expiry or sooner termination of this Lease.
5.3 Removal of Hazardous Substances.
On or before the expiry or sooner termination of this Lease, the Tenant will remove all Hazardous Substances which have been brought onto or created upon the Premises during the Term or any extension or renewal thereof, whether by the Tenant or any other person, other than the Landlord, including without limitation any Hazardous Substances which may have been released or deposited into the soil.
5.4 Notice of Hazardous Substances.
The Tenant will advise the Landlord forthwith after becoming aware of any release of any Hazardous Substances on the Premises or any other part of the Complex or any adjacent property and will provide the Landlord with all information, notices, reports and other documents it has regarding such release and the remediation steps being undertaken by the Tenant with respect to the release or as may reasonably be required by the Landlord of the Tenant.
5.5 Restoration After Contamination.
If the presence of any Hazardous Substance or any other substance brought onto the Premises by the Tenant results in any contamination of the Premises or the Complex, the Tenant will promptly take all actions at its sole risk and expense as are necessary to return the Premises and the Complex to the condition existing prior to the introduction of any such Hazardous Substance or other substance on the Premises or the Complex.
5.6 Records.
The Landlord may at any time and from time to time, on five days’ prior written notice to the Tenant, have the Premises, any records reasonably considered to be relevant for the purpose of identifying the existence, nature and extent of any Hazardous Substance on the Premises and the Tenant’s use, storage and disposal of such Hazardous Substance, inspected by a duly qualified independent environmental auditor, and the Tenant agrees to cooperate with the auditor in its performance of each such inspection. In exercising such right of inspection, neither the Landlord nor its auditor will unreasonably interfere with the Tenant’s use and occupation of the Premises. If the auditor, acting reasonably, determines following any such inspection that further testing or investigation is required in order to monitor the Tenant’s compliance with all applicable law relating to the use, storage and disposal of any Hazardous Substance, the Landlord may at its option require the Tenant, at the Tenant’s expense, to arrange for such testing or investigation or may make such arrangements itself, in which case the Landlord’s reasonable costs of any such testing or investigation will be paid by the Tenant to the Landlord within 30 days after receipt of any invoice on account thereof.
5.7 Cleanup Plans.
If any government authority requires the clean up of any Hazardous Substance held, released, spilled, abandoned or placed upon the Premises or the Complex or any other lands or released, spilled, leaked, pumped, poured, emitted, emptied, discharged, injected, escaped, leached, disposed or dumped into the environment by the Tenant in the course of the Tenant’s business or as a result of the Tenant’s use or occupancy of the Premises, the Tenant will, at its own risk and expense:
| (a) | prepare all necessary studies, plans and proposals and submit them for approval; |
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