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Advocate Daily: $750,000 penalty for bird deaths shows ‘creative sentencing’ value

Corporate litigator and regulatory lawyer Bruce McMeekin says a New Brunswick court demonstrated the effectiveness of “creative sentencing” when it ordered Canaport LNG LP to pay most of a $750,000 penalty to various environmental and wildlife organizations in connection with the death of about 7,500 birds that flew into its gas facility’s burning flare….http://www.advocatedaily.com/750000-penalty-for-bird-deaths-shows-creative-sentencing-value.html