Canadian Food Inspection Agency tangles with P.E.I. fish scientist
Toronto Star, December 14, 2012
Denis Calnan
CHARLOTTETOWN — There’s something fishy going on in Prince Edward Island.
A professor at Atlantic Veterinary College says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is trying to discredit his work after tests he conducted showed a virus in British Columbia’s valuable wild salmon population.
Dr. Frederick Kibenge, who found the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus in October 2011, is recognized by the World Organisation for Animal Health — known as the OIE — as an expert on the virus.
Decision disappoints Friends of the Earth
Court missed chance to affirm “polluter pays” obligation
[Grand Falls-Windsor, NL] Advertiser, December 13, 2012
Sue Hickey
Members of the public as well as the provincial government weren’t the only ones disappointed with the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling that said AbitibiBowater didn’t have to pay for the cost of cleaning up its mill properties.
Friends of the Earth, represented by Ecojustice, intervened in the case to argue that the law requires insolvent corporations retain environmental obligations through restructuring. The cost, they argued, should not be shouldered by taxpayers.
Province to rewrite laws in the wake of Abitibi decision
[St. John’s] The Telegram, December 11, 2012
James McLeod
Premier Kathy Dunderdale said Monday that as far as she’s concerned, the government would be on the hook for cleaning up an environmental mess at the abandoned Abitibi mill in Grand Falls-Windsor even if it hadn’t accidentally expropriated it in 2008.
Dunderdale is also promising legislation to change the province’s environmental protection laws to make sure the government doesn’t get stuck with the bill again.
Abitibi dominated question period in the House of Assembly after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday the paper manufacturer isn’t responsible for cleaning up environmental liabilities at the mill it once operated in Grand Falls-Windsor.
Premier Looking at Clean-up Legislation
VOCM, December 11, 2012
The Premier says government is looking at new legislation that would prevent the province from having to pick up environmental bills. After a Supreme Court of Canada ruling Friday, the province is on the hook for more than $100-million of remediation at former Abitibi Bowater sites. Kathy Dunderdale says the law would have companies prove they can clean up a site before they even start work. Dunderdale says it will be a similar process to that used with new mining operations. She says companies would provide the security up front.
http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&id=29074&latest=1
Supreme Court rules in AbitibiBowater case
CBC News — The National, December 9, 2012
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of a pulp and paper mill that the province of Newfoundland and Labrador accuses of not paying for environmental clean-up. Margo McDiarmid reports.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/ID/2314360872/
Province loses bid to force Abitibi to clean up contamination
Supreme Court of Canada ruled 7-2 against government
[Grand Falls–Windsor, NL] Advertiser, December 8, 2012
Barb Sweet, The Telegram
Finance Minister and Attorney General Tom Marshall said the province fought the good fight on the Abitibi mill cleanup, but doesn’t regret the expropriation of the company’s assets.
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against the government in its effort to force insolvent newsprint giant AbitibiBowater Inc. to pay for an environmental cleanup.
Top court: N.L. can’t force AbitibiBowater cleanup
Ruling tells province to get in line with other creditors
[Halifax] Chronicle Herald, December 8, 2012
Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against the government of Newfoundland and Labrador in its effort to force insolvent newsprint giant AbitibiBowater Inc. to pay for an environmental cleanup.
The high court acknowledged the so-called “polluter pay” principle, but ruled it wasn’t enough to give the province the victory it has now failed to achieve in three levels of court.
The court’s 7–2 ruling was greeted with disappointment by the environmental group that intervened in the case.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/229262-top-court-nl-can-t-force-abitibibowater-cleanup
Supreme Court sides with Abitibi in environmental cleanup case
Globe and Mail, December 7, 2012
Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against the government of Newfoundland and Labrador in its effort to force insolvent newsprint giant AbitibiBowater Inc. to pay for an environmental cleanup.
The high court acknowledged the so-called “polluter pay” principle, but ruled it wasn’t enough to give the province the victory it has now failed to achieve in three levels of court.
The court’s 7–2 ruling was greeted with disappointment by the environmental group that intervened in the case.