Court Bulletin

For immediate release
November 12, 2008

Sobeys Properties Limited fined $3,000 for approval violation

RENFREW - On October 24, 2008, Sobeys Properties Limited pleaded guilty to one count of contravening the Ontario Water Resources Act by failing to comply with a condition in a Certificate of Approval issued for a sewage works at one of its grocery stores in Eganville by failing to submit an annual performance report. Sobeys Properties Limited was charged following an investigation by the ministry’s Investigations and Enforcement Branch. The company was fined $3,000 plus a victim fine surcharge, and was given sixty days to pay.

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