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Identifying remedial measures
34. The operator has a duty to put right what has gone wrong or, if that is not possible, provide some equivalent benefit. During the period until damage is repaired in full, some interim effort may be required as well. A judgement needs to be made about the remediation appropriate to a certain damage. That can be a financial equivalent or an equivalent in resource or service replaced, a process familiar to economists or accountants. The resource equivalency model tends to be more appropriate for repair of environmental resources damaged, although a financial value may be suitable where the resource is difficult to quantify. .
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