J.W. Hiscock Sons to Pay $3,000 penalty for disposal at sea violations

HARBOUR GRACE, N.L. -- May 14, 2012 -- On May 8, 2012, J.W. Hiscock Sons Limited pleaded guilty in Newfoundland and Labrador provincial court, in Harbour Grace, for violations under the disposal at sea regulations of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. The company was ordered to pay a $3,000 penalty. 

The Court ordered that all of the penalty will be directed to the Environmental Damages Fund.

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