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Not sure about you but I know the thing that would get my long weekend off to a great start would be if the Feds would do their job and charge Imperial Metals for destroying salmon habitat.
The VSun's Gordon Hoekstra had that story recently. Here's his lede:
Environmentalists and Mount Polley mine-area residents are anxiously waiting as one deadline approaches for federal agencies to lay charges over the 2014 collapse of the B.C. Interior mine’s tailings dam.
After a 4-1/2-year investigation, a team comprised of officials with Environment Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, along with the B.C. Conservation Officer Service, delivered a charge package to federal prosecutors this spring.
It is now up to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada to determine if charges will be laid.
Under federal law, there is a five-year window that ends (Friday) Aug. 4 to lay charges in a summary conviction under the Fisheries Act, where a large corporation faces fines up to $8 million...
Sure.
It's only $8 million.
But, at the very least, it's the principle of the thing.
OK?
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019
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4 comments:
It would be wonderful if they charged the company. However, break out a beer or scotch, whatever because its not going to happen. These companies donate to political parties and with the impending election, they are not going to cut off a source of funding. A lot of people have forgotten about Mount Polley, so the Liberals are good to go, from their perspective.
If some is sitting in a room weighting the pros and cons, they know if you care about Mount Polley you aren't going to switch your vote to the conservatives, so they're good to go. Now as was reported Elizabeth may has suggested she might put her support with the Cons, if they give her what she wants, may deter some from voting for the Greens. the NDP, isn't much of a threat to the Liberals and they know the NDP isn't going to flush them down the toilet only to have the Cons take over.
Unless there is a ground swell of support for charging the mining company, the federal Liberals are going to do NOTHING!.
Trudeau talks a good game and makes some progressive efforts, but when it comes down to dealing with polluters, is all the same with major political parties who get their funding from corportions.
over at Keeping It Real, Harvey O., writes about the Canadian government sending foreign aid to India, don't remember what the amount is but its into the tens of millions. YOu have to wonder why, when India is spending money like a drunk sailor on a space project. We could have kept the money in Canada and used it to provide clean running drinking water for Canadians living on reserves. Of course we know the foreign aid will gain money and votes for the Liberals in some areas, while those living on reservations without clean drinking water, don't have the same political clout.
the NDP has been rather silent on all of this so I wonder what the new leader or any NDP M.P. is saying or doing about Mount Polley. If they opened their mouths or paid a visit to the area, who knows some one might remember the NDP is still out there and alive.
Ross, the political tentacles of SNC Lavalin, Imperial Metals and their ilk stretch deeply into Conservative and Liberal electioneering. We knew nothing was going to happen to Imperial Metals while the faux BC Liberals controlled the province. The endowment of that infamous Christy Clark by that marvelous entrepreneur, Murray Edwards, assured no action was taken during the BC Liberal watch. Edwards wanted his free Hydro Transmission line to his Red Chris development. He got it and BC Hydro customers are paying for it. I've wondered why Mr. Edwards left the country. Is he in the Panama Papers?
The feds are going to let the time run out on and then claim it is too late to do anything. RG
I’d like a fine for BC Day, too. It’d be great, if only on principle.
As for bribing governments with political donations to overlook ethical and tailings-pond breaches, perhaps the fine should include a pro attorney period during which such contributions would be considered illegal bribes and dealt with accordingly—perhaps penalized in the amount ten or a hundred times the proffered lucre.
What would make my weekend is a response to the two registered letters I sent Todd Gerhart, BC Chief Federal Prosecutor two years ago this month.
As for Imperial, it would be wonderful if nothing happened on that front this weekend because intent is to go for the indictment for which there is no statutory limitation.
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