7 as aol tames a a ee eT ee ce 2 cae er ae eT) Page A2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 21, 1990 Judge awards $960,000 - TERRACE — A construction company owner who successful- ly sued the province over a con- tract on a major northwest highways project says he hopes it helps other companies. “I did it for myself, but now I hope it helps: those guys who come behind me,’ said Fred Williamson of . Williamson Bros. Construction Ltd. last week, - County court judge Howard Hamilton found in favour of Williamson’s claim that the highways ministry acted fraudulently in not informing the company of potential from front manure and rebuild his main barn ‘unreasonable.’ He said then he would be forced to close the farm if the environment ministry continued to “‘persecute”’ him. Both sides have compromis- ed, Kinkead said, who now won’t have to make major changes to the barn if he can prove the clay ground surroun- ding it is impervious, and would contain any manure that leaks out. He says he will hire an engineer to study the soil as soon as he receives the final terms of reference from the en- vironment. ministry, “We hope to be producing by this fall,’' he said. The potting soil will be bagged — with some of it being shipped to Van- couver, and the rest being marketed across the northwest. “We know we've got a pro- . duct, we know how it has to be mixed, and we know we've got a market,’’ Kinkead said. A composting pilot project last summer yielded high-grade soil. that -a--local - greenhouse operator tested and: got good results with, Kinkead added. The concrete pit he plans to build will contain an entire year’s worth of manure, he said. ; Waste management branch spokesman Terry Roberts said the plan worked out last month is subject to soil test results from the farm, but he said the agreement indicates a solution to the standoff is close. “Everybody seems to be on side now,"’ he added. ‘‘I think we're finally talking the same language.’ But Kinkead said something could have been worked out much sooner if environment of- ficials had been prepared to talk first and lay charges later. “The solution probably could have been reached two years ago if anyone had the intestinal fortitude to talk to me face-to- face,”* he said. NOTICE Terrace Furniture Mart ad of March 14 ‘should’ have Included “On Approved Credit.” We regrat any inconvenience this omis- sion may have caused. that over 1,000,000 -Canadians have diabetes? 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