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# NOVA Chemicals ordered to pay Dow additional CAD $1.6 billion
- URL: https://www.plasticsiq.com/nova-chemicals-pay-dow-cad-1-6-billion/
- Published: 2025-07-09T16:30:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T18:02:24.000Z
- Description: This is in addition to the CAD $1.43 billion the company was already ordered to pay.
- Author: Rhiannon Temporal
- Tags: Policy & Regulation

[**NOVA Chemicals**](https://www.novachem.com/?ref=plasticsiq.com) **has been ordered to pay** [**Dow**](https://corporate.dow.com/en-us.html?ref=plasticsiq.com) **an additional CAD $1.6 billion by the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, Canada, in damages. Equivalent to around USD $1.2 billion, the judgment was signed last month. However, the judgment is subject to appeal.**

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![NOVA Chemicals set to pay Dow CAD $1.6 billion.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/34/28/3428fdf9-74dc-4cfd-9519-e5e23a7ca0e0/content/images/2026/09/15507-NOVA_Chemicals_set_to_pay_Dow_CAD__1.6_billion.jpg?cb=ab4cd2f761549087cee4b68d2944e94c "NOVA Chemicals set to pay Dow CAD $1.6 billion.")

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## NOVA Chemicals set to pay Dow CAD $1.6 billion.

The judgment relates to losses Dow incurred from the pair’s jointly owned [ethylene](https://www.plasticsiq.com/topics/ethylene/) asset in Joffre, Canada. Additionally, the award includes interest to the 7th of April 2025 but excludes any subsequent interest or legal costs, with payment expected in the fourth quarter of 2025.

This latest ruling adds to the CAD $1.43 billion payment that NOVA Chemicals has already made to Dow in damages in 2019\. That decision was due to NOVA Chemicals being found to have failed to operate the jointly owned ethylene asset at full capacity, breaching contractual obligations since 2001\. This resulted in a reduction in ethylene for Dow. Following an appeal, the damages were recalculated for the periods 2001-2012 and 2013-June 2018, which had not yet been quantified.