American man fined $45K for altering shoreline on Georgian Bay property
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Making unauthorized changes to the shoreline of a waterfront property in northern Ontario has cost another man thousands of dollars in fines.
Making unauthorized changes to the shoreline of a waterfront property in northern Ontario has cost another man thousands of dollars in fines.
Kenneth Wilson, of California, pleaded guilty last month to altering shorelines along his Georgian Bay property in the Parry Sound area without a permit, the Ontario government said in a news release Friday.
As a result, he has been fined $45,000 by Justice of the Peace Michael Kitlar in a June 12 hearing.
The work happened between June 2017 and August 2019.
"These alterations consisted of filling shorelines in six separate areas which were completed without work permits issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, as required by the Public Lands Act," the province said.
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The two northwestern Ontario residents were found guilty of spreading sand along their adjoining shorelines of their Agimak Lake properties in August 2020, the province said.
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