This afternoon, SCRD Acting-Chief Administrative Officer, Paul Fenwick, released the following update regarding the Local Board of Health Order to Western Forest Products:
Update to Complainants
LBH Order Update August 13, 2007
Western Forest Products has contacted the SCRD and is in discussions through our respective legal counsels regarding the Order Under the Health Act. WFP has advised that the company is respecting the Order.
Discussions are sensitive at this time and more information will be provided once known and as appropriate. In the meantime the company is continuing to freeze all logging activity in the watershed.
We appreciate the questions regarding “enforcement” /monitoring of the Order. Staff have some of the same questions and note that is premature to discuss this topic until the status of the Order is known. We also appreciate your kind thoughts to the Board and staff for their hard work and diligence over the hearings.
You can expect on going efforts by the SCRD once things settle out from the LBH Order. If the Order is unchallenged by WFP, SCRD staff will follow-up with WFP and take other measures as necessary to monitor compliance of the Order.
If the Order is challenged in the Courts, or in some other fashion, we shall work through SCRD legal counsel as required to assert our interests. As discussed, other watershed initiatives including ongoing dialogue with the Provincial Government are underway or planned separate to the LBH process.
Thank you for your patience at this critical stage in the process.
Paul Fenwick
GM Community Services A/CAO
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