BC Agrees to Pay $300,000 to Couple Who Say Logging Flooded Their Property

BC Agrees to Pay $300,000 to Couple Who Say Logging Flooded Their Property
Floodwaters cover Ray Chipeniuk's driveway near Smithers, B.C., in this 2018 handout photo. HO, Ray Chipeniuk/The Canadian Press
The Canadian Press
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Lawyers for the British Columbia government have agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit by a couple whose property flooded after a third of the forest in the surrounding watershed was cut down.

The agreement came in a handwritten note that was signed by the Crown’s lawyers and handed over in court on the day the trial was set to begin last month.