The Peninsula Times
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-01-09
issued: 1978-06-07
description: Serving the Sunshine Coast.
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note: <f>. ���- ��� ��&:y-t'-> eninsula itmeb Serving the Sunshine Coast. (Hows Sound to Jervis-lnlet) including Port Mellon Hopkins Landing Gronthams Landing Gibsons Roberts Creek Wilson Creek Selma Park Sechelt Halfmoon Boy Secret Cove Pender Hrb Madeira Park Garden Bay. Irvines landing Earls Cove Egmont 2nd Class Mail- Registration No 1U5 Phone 885-3231 Union c-��ks?����7 Label 20 Pages ��� 15c Copy LARGEST READERSHIP OF ANY PAPER ON THE SUNSHINE COAST. Volume 16 ���No. 27 21 +CNA Wednesday, June 7,1978 $10,000 for oil spill N By TERM BRANBMUELLER Canadian Forest Products Ltd. was. fined $10,000 last Wednesday after being found guilty of allowing the deposit of a substance harmful to fish in the Howe Sound waters near the company's Port' Mellon mill. In handing down judgement inUechelt, Provincial Court Judge J.S.P. Johnson said the fine, although twice the maximum - allowed before recent Fisheries Act amendments, is not Jthe only deterrent in; an oil spill situation. _As of September 1,1977, the maximum penalty' for a first offence for such a charge is $50,000. Prior to that date the maximum fine was only $5,000 for each offence. "The court would be naive to think fines up to $50,000 are going to be an effective deterrent alone," said Johnson. "This company does not wish its corporate name tainted with a conviction, under environmental legislation���that in itself is a deterrent." And Bill- Hughes, Port Mellon mill manager, would agree with the judge. revealed that the oil pipe line feeding the "The judgement makes no difference to our overall plans," he said. "It's the publicity that goes with these things (spills) that's the biggest deterrent. Nobody likes to see their name, shall we say, smeared.". .��� The conviction results from an oil spill that occurred September 14,1977, when a ruptured oil pipe dumped 1,000 gallons of Bunker C oil into Thornbrough Channel During a two-day trial in Sechelt April 13 and 14 the judge heard testimony that 4 > Garbage committee to…
note: Frequency: Weekly Titled "The Sechelt Peninsula Times" from 1963-12-04 to 1967-03-01. Titled "The Peninsula Times" from 1967-03-08 to 1979-12-26. Published by Sechelt Peninsula Times Ltd. from 1963-12-04 to 1968-12-24 and from 1970-11-04 to 1971-03-10; by The Peninsula Times Ltd. from 1969-01-08 to 1970-10-28; by Powell River News Town Crier Sechelt Times Ltd. from 1971-03-17 to 1975-11-05; and by Westpres Publications Ltd. from 1975-11-12 to 1979-12-26. Dates of Publication: 1963 to 1980.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sechelt (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0186527
language: English
lat: 49.4716667
long: -123.763333
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sechelt, B.C : Westpres Publications Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Sechelt Community Archives.
type: Text