Company fined for fire incident. (Forestry News). (Bowater Inc.).Forest products giant Bowater Inc. has been fined $40,000 by a Justice of the Peace in connection with a massive forest fire two years ago. The Ministry of Natural Resources charged the company following an investigation into the cause of a fire in the Black Sturgeon sturgeon, primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the area of Nipigon in April, 1999. The blaze destroyed almost 50,000 hectares of forest and cost $6 million to extinguish Extinguish Retire or pay off debt. . The company was found guilty of failing to modify its harvesting operations during a high fire hazard fire hazard fire n that's a fire hazard → das ist feuergefährlich fire hazard n that's a fire hazard → comporta rischi in caso d'incendio period, and of not alerting employees of a fire hazard. Bowater's defence counsel argued the penalty is not fitting of the offense saying the company followed the correct guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. of the Forestry Act The company has 60 days to pay the fine or 30 days to appeal the judgment. |
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