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Easement dispute heads to court as landowners calling Spectra a bully
“I can’t hug you.” Those were Paul Fleming’s last words to his weeping mother as a sheriff led him out of court and off to prison last Thursday. The former Kent Institution guard was sentenced in a Chilliwack courtroom to three-and-a-half years in prison for bringing marijuana and crystal methamphetamine into the jail for inmates. In sentencing Fleming for breach of trust and possession EB IRST for the purpose of trafficking, Judge First reported on Kenneth Skilnick chilliwacktimes.com called the offences “very serious,” and an “egregious breach of trust.” “This is an offence that causes tremendous harm,” Skilnick said. “It is a very serious matter when a corrections officer turns his back on his responsibilities, on his fellow corrections officers and betrays the trust . . . of all Canadians.” It was Boxing Day 2012 when Fleming, of Agassiz, was arrested at Kent and charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance.
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pectra Energy may have thousands of kilometres of natural gas pipelines across North America, but one short stretch through the heart of Chilliwack is proving to be particularly troublesome. The Fortune 500 company filed a lawsuit last Friday against six Chilliwack farmers who won’t let the pipeline company onto their properties. While the local landowners say Spectra is being a bully ever since they caused crop damage to a corn field in 2011, the company says the lawsuit is simply a “plan B,” to clarify their legal access under existing easement agreements. Because of increased population growth in Chilliwack, National Energy Board (NEB) safety guidelines require Spectra to replace a 2.4-kilometre section of
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Spectra Energy crews during an “emergency” dig on Gordon Mitchell’s Chilliwack farm in 2011.
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