A senior citizen who used a drone to monitor a ship-breaking operation on Vancouver Island has won a legal victory after the company sued her for sharing videos. The judge ruled in favor of the senior, rebuking the company for their actions.
A senior who used a drone to keep tabs on an industrial Vancouver Island ship-breaking operation has won a partial legal victory , with the judge rebuking the company who sued her for publicizing videos she captured.Mary Reynolds regularly flies a drone over Deep Water Recovery's Vancouver Island ship-breaking site, gathering video footage of the operation. A judge has ruled the company cannot sue her for damages.
Reynolds started flying her mini drone over the Union Bay site a few years ago, frustrating workers at Deep Water Recovery Ltd., an operation that dismantles derelict barges and ships. She then published some of the close to 300 videos she gathered online and was outspoken about her hope to shut down the marine demolition business that she fears is polluting the shoreline about 30 kilometres north of Qualicum, B.C.
"Reynolds' work has led to numerous federal and provincial inspections and findings by the Ministry of Environment that the ship-breaking operation has contravened environmental statutes and that they've been issued citations and fines."the company to stop the release of pollution and monitor and report discharges from the site. The abatement order says the company is illegally allowing toxic effluent to run into Baynes Sound on Vancouver Island's east coast.
Jurisich said his legitimate ship dismantling operation sits on long-contaminated industrial land and is being targeted by locals with political motivations and concerns about property value. He said federal officials have no major concerns with the site, which at one time had a coal rail line and two landfills.
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