3 companies fined more than $1.5M over Haida Gwaii logging

Jan 10, 2017
CBC News
By Justin McElroy

A judge has handed down significant fines and bans for destructive logging on Haida Gwaii earlier this decade.  Gwaii Wood Products Ltd., Howe Sound Forest Products Ltd., and I. Crosby Contracting Ltd. were taken to court by the federal government over allegations of environmentally destructive logging practices over a four month period in 2010.  A provincial court judge in Massett found the companies guilty of environmentally destructive logging practices in October 2015.

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