THE SEWAGE DOUBLE STANDARD: New rules still won’t penalize cities for sewage dumping


Farmers maintain it’s not fair that a municipality can dump many litres of sewage from an overloaded
sewage treatment plant when farmers get hit hard for spilling a tanker of liquid manure on a roadside


by DON STONEMAN

In 2002, Environment Canada announced that Hay Bay Farms Inc. of Napanee and its manager, Mark Davis, would each be fined $5,000 for violating the Fisheries Act and ordered to pay $25,000 to the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority for fish habitat and stream rehabilitation.

Better Farming - October 2010